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C&R Technologies Announces Version 5.1 Product Releases

Littleton, Colorado, November 1, 2007

C&R Technologies, Inc. announced all new product releases for their tool suite; Version 5.1 installers are now available. This includes new releases of SINDA/FLUINT, Thermal Desktop®, RadCAD® and FloCAD®. "This has been a year for progressive improvements to our tool suite," says Cindy Beer, international director of Marketing and Sales. "Much of this year's improvements continue to support our expansion into alternate industries along with staying in the front lines of technology with multi-processors and 64-bit operation. We are continuing to work several long term development programs which will deliver new capabilities to our tool suite over the coming year."

Customers under current support contracts may download the updated versions for free however they will need to contact our support department for new license files. Customers who no longer are under current support contracts must contact our sales department to upgrade to the newer versions.

SINDA/FLUINT expansions include but are not limited to:

Variable Molecular Weight Fluid Species—6000 series FPROP DATA blocks now support an optional feature: a molecular weight that varies as a function of pressure and temperature. This option facilitates the modeling of complex mixtures, perhaps internally reacting or dissociating/recombining, such as ionized gases and hot products of combustion. It may be used alone or in combination with the chemical reactions described next.
Chemical Reactions—The ability to model finite rate (“reacting flow”) chemical reactions has been added. This capability takes in the form of species mass sink/source terms for FLUINT tanks within transients (or within STDSTL, but not FASTIC). The corresponding heat of reaction is applied on the basis of heat of formation added to the species fluid description (FPROP DATA block). A reaction rate utility routine (EQRATE) is available to help define chemical equations, and perhaps to drive the reaction to a desired state (as defined by either equilibrium fractions, or by reaction/ combustion efficiencies). One of the product species might be a variable molecular weight fluid, eliminating the need to track many products of combustion by using a single equivalent species instead.
See full list of release notes.

Thermal Desktop/RadCAD/FloCAD product expansions include but are not limited to:

AutoCAD® 2008 compatibility
Advection (solid mass transport) added to FD Solids and Pipes.
Parallel Processing for RadCAD calculations with AutoCAD 2007 and higher.
See full list of release notes.

Formed in 1992, C&R Technologies provides products and services in the areas of heat transfer and fluid flow design and analysis. C&R Technologies are the authors of world-class thermal and fluid software including SINDA/FLUINT, Thermal Desktop®, RadCAD®, FloCAD® and SinapsPlus®. For more information on C&R Technologies, Inc., contact us at 303.971.0292.

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