Flovent software wins controlled environments award
Flomerics’ Flovent software for airflow prediction in buildings has been awarded the Expert’s Choice Award for Software from Controlled Environments Magazine</em>.
An independent panel of judges selected Flovent software as the best software package in the contamination protection and controlled environment industry. The award stated that: “No matter how complex the airflow application is, this modelling software enables the user to understand it more comprehensively through the medium of virtual reality and computer 3-D animation.”
The Experts Choice Award is designed to recognise and reward superior products, technologies and facilities in the contamination prevention and controlled environment industry. Flomerics and other award winners were recognised in the May 2006 issue of Controlled Environments Magazine as well as at the Clean and Controlled Environments 2006 conference, which was held in May in Boston, Massachusetts US.
Flovent software from Flomerics reduces the time and skill required to simulate complex ventilation problems, because it is specially designed for applications in the built environment. It provides tools that allow users to assemble models from libraries, avoiding the need to create them from scratch.
Flovent provides an environment that enables fast, automated design studies. Automated gridding and distributed processing across networks streamlines the process of evaluating multiple iterations to optimise the design. Flovent Version 6 offers improved 3D visualization and enhanced treatment for glazed surfaces; curvilinear geometry; angled fans; centrifugal blowers; and air-recirculation devices. Support for the latest 64-bit computer processors is also now available.
“We are particularly gratified by this award because we have worked hard to provide the features needed by the controlled environment industry in Flovent,” said Dr Andy Manning, director of engineering for Flomerics Inc.
“Flovent was the first computational fluid dynamics software developed specifically for designing ventilation systems for built environments. The software enables engineers to anticipate potential design flaws so that they can be remedied before the facility is constructed. It quickly and efficiently reveals areas of opportunity for improved performance in operating cleanrooms.
“Finally, Flovent offers the ability to model a variety of options for both planned and operating cleanrooms so that the most economical solutions can be pursued with a high degree of confidence in their validity.”
