Abaqus Chemical Reaction Network Toolbox Cambridge Materials Selector Desktop Microscopist Eva Fluent HSC Chemistry I-DEAS Image Processing Toolkit Maple Mathcad Matlab Minitab Pfc2d Polyflow SigmaPlot Simulink SuperPro Designer Visual Fortran Visual Studio
ABAQUS is a high-performance software package developed by Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. for the numerical modeling of structural response. It enables you to do linear or nonlinear, and static or dynamic types ofanalysis for a large spectrum of engineering problems. The ABAQUS suite of engineering analysis software packages are used throughout the world to simulate the physical response of structures and solid bodies to load, temperature, contact, impact, and other environmental conditions. Some of the specific capabilities of ABAQUS are:
A data deck for ABAQUS contains model data and history data. The model data define a finite element model (geometry, materials definition, element properties, etc.). The history data define the sequence of events or loadings. History data is divided into steps, each step being a period of response of a particular type.
All data definitions in ABAQUS are accomplished with optionblocks. Each option is introduced by a keyword card. Within certain restrictions, you can use user subroutines as powerful and flexible tools for analysis. Post processing options include time history plots, variable-variable plots, and printed tables showing values as functions of time, output in a neutral plot format that you can read with the post-processing routine of your choice. There are also options that allow additional output (printed tables, contour or deformed configurations plots, FILE output) to be created at specified increments from an ABAQUS restart file.
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C-MOLD Advanced Plastics CAE provides detailed views into the molding process. C-MOLD can be used to evaluate material options, determine gate options, balance runner systems, design and evaluate cooling circuits, optimize cycle time, identify and control the mechanisms causing shrinkage and warpage... before designs are finalized or the mold is commissioned. Eliminate the costs and delays of trial-and-error molding by applying the power of C-MOLD early in the design and decision-making process.
C-MOLD Advanced Products are design for dedicated simulation users who need in depth predictions for all phases of design, manufacturing, and resulting part quality. Advanced simulation products cover a wide range of plastic processes including injection molding, gas-assisted injection molding, co-injection, injection-compression molding, reaction injection molding, microchip encapsulation, resin transfer molding (RTM), structural reaction injection molding (SRIM), rubber injection molding, blow molding, and thermoforming.
Advanced tools address all aspects of product and mold design, molding process conditions, and part quality. Evaluate part thickness, part size, gate placement, cooling system placement and efficiency, optimize process conditions, evaluate resulting part size, shape, and structural integrity.
For further information, please refer to the following URL: http://www.cmold.com/
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The Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) is a Windows based PC toolkit for the evaluation and selection of materials for engineering design. Developed at Cambridge University, the Cambridge Engineering Selector uses an extensive suite of databases containing the mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of a wide range of materials including ceramics, metals, polymers, elastomers and composites. Property data is presented in a graphical format to provide a series of 'material selection charts' which, when combined with the use of performance indexes, enable the rapid identification of the optimum materials for a specific design.
The Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) is a Windows based PC toolkit that features the use of graphical materials selection charts and databases of material properties. The databases contain all the main classes of engineering materials including metals, polymers, ceramics, elastomers and composites. Over 50 properties are stored for each material, including mechanical, thermal, electrical, price, forming and joining methods, typical uses and suppliers.
The use of the Cambridge Engineeing Selector will encourage and develop an understanding of the properties of materials and their role in design. It provides an extensive data source for a wide range of materials and a cost effective computer based system easily used for student practicals and workshops
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The Chemical Reaction Network Toolbox is made up of two integrated parts: ChemLab and Network Analyst. ChemLab is a simulation environment. In response to a user-specified mass action system -- that is, a reaction network taken together with a specification of rate constants -- ChemLab will formulate the mass action ordinary differential equations that govern the species concentrations. These equations are sometimes lengthy and complex. So as not to intimidate the mathematically faint of heart, they are kept from view, but users who want to see them can request a display.
An "experiment" with a mass action system is a specification of initial concentrations for the various species taken together with a stopping time. For each experiment specified, ChemLab solves the appropriate differential equations numerically. The evolution of species concentrations with time can then be shown in tabular form or in a variety of two and three dimensional graphical displays.
Experiments with the mass action system under consideration can be saved in a "library". The results of several experiments can be exhibited simult-aneously in two and three dimensional phase portraits. (For our purposes, a phase portrait is a collection of curves, called "trajectories", that show how the reactor state travels through "composition space" as time progress-es. Each curve corresponds to a particular choice of initial composition.) Phase portraits provide excellent means for understanding the qualitative behavior of mass actions systems. Rate constants can be changed while the library of initial conditions is retained, so it is easy to study how phase portraits are affected when parameters in the governing equations are modified.
You can also have the results of an experiment saved to a text file that can, in turn, be imported into a spreadsheet program such as Excel, Quattro Pro or Lotus 123.
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Desktop Microscopist has been written to supply a broad range of computational and representational methods for the electron/x-ray microscopist and material scientist with the highest degree of flexibility, ease of use and user/program interactivity possible given current technology. Starting from a set of simple programs written on a PDP-11, it evolved to its present state through a direct link to Diffract, a program which was written by Eric Schlienger, Jim Stanley and Hamish Fraser on a MacPlus and a couple of MacIIs. The current version, DM2.0 has been written to solve the day to day questions of working crystallographers. Now you can extract information, postulate models, compare your models with previous workers and simulate experimental results all from the same program.
With Desktop Microscopist 2.0, you get all of DM 1.0's capabilities,and in addition, full dynamic simulations of CBED and SAD patterns, dislocation image simulations, a Monte Carlo modeling package, experimental data reduction for calculating primitive lattices, graphical determination of crystal orientation, point and click orientation relationships, the ability to search four different types of data sets (DM crystals, JCPDF Powder File, the EDD and the NBS Crystal Database (200,000+ crystals), linking, picture distortion correction, speed enhancements (as much as 10x faster calculating diffraction patterns)
Furthemore, every section has dozens of functions added to make your task easier and the data you need accessible and controllable. For example, the SAD section allows the user to simulate diffraction patterns from up to four different crystals and any number of orientations. In addition, DM 2.0 gives control over the exact beam orientation and the ability to control the beam using a double tilt stage simulation that can be tied to your own stage. The user can also elect to create a table of diffracted values, explore the effects of crystal shape and size, and search and overlay patterns generated from crystals found in four separate database sets. Then, the user can import images from actual experiments and use DM 2.0 to extract primitive cell volumes, full primitive cells, orientation relationships which can be plotted to a linked stereogram etc..
A new feature with Desktop Microscopist 2.0, is the ability to link windows. When windows are linked they maintain the same crystals, the same orientation relationships, the same stage orientation, and the same beam orientation. If, dynamic linking is active, all linked windows are immediately updated when any of the linked objects are altered with respect to crystal definition, orientation relationship, stage orientation or beam orientation. This allows the user to quickly update various representations of the experimental situation efficiently, and to gain some insight into the relationship between reciprocal space and the corresponding real space representation.
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Eva helps you solve diffraction problems, then produce high quality printed documents to share your results with others. Files collected with DIFFRAC-AT or DIFFRACplus are directly compatible with Eva (you can import them directly into an Eva document). Data sets from other origins must be converted before importing them. Xch, a standard DIFFRACplus component, can convert most ASCII measured data sets into suitable .RAW files. Eva modifies measured data sets (for example, by smoothing them or subtracting their continuous background). Eva can also export modified raw files for use as input by other tasks. Scans are displayed as continuous traces in Eva
Reference patterns are stored in powder diffraction databases in DIFFRAC-AT or DIFFRACplus format, and displayed by Eva as stick diagrams. The powder diffraction file (PDF) is the sole scientific database for powder diffraction data. It is the intellectual property of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)ñ International Centre for Diffraction Data. This organization makes the PDF database available under license agreements. PDFMaint (another DIFFRACplus component) compiles the complete ICDDís PDF in our format, searches the database to retrieve and display the relevant information, and creates user patterns (patterns of proprietary or new materials). Eva displays the reference patterns as stick diagrams, but can also display their numerical data exactly as PDFMaint does.
Eva can find a reference pattern by its name or number, or by a search/match process, which tries to identify an unknown scan using a set of reference patterns scaled to take the matched intensities into account. Searching, which is based on pattern recognition techniques, runs automatically in a few seconds and delivers a list of best results for you to check. Matching is an interactive process: you accept or reject each proposed reference pattern based on graphical compatibility between the unknown scan and reference pattern, and based on compatibility with knowledge of the sample (origin, chemistry, preparation, etc.). Because it is not of interest for all users, Search/Match is optional (when not purchased, it is disabled). A set of peaks located by Eva can also become a pattern (called a DIF pattern) and is displayed exactly like any reference pattern. Patterns are displayed as stick patterns in Eva. Peaks are the result of peak search treatment on scans. You can determine the peak list before transferring it as a pattern, or export the list as a file (.DIF) which can be imported by another Eva document or other programs such as Win-Metric (Bruker AXSí cell refinement program). You can select whether to display d, 2q, and/or intensity on the peaks.
Eva lets you calculate the net intensity, full width at half maximum (FWHM), and many other meaningful values of a selected area. This set of results is called an area. Area computation can be performed on all regions of interest. Results are stored in the area list. Two other DIFFRACplus components can perform similar operations: DQuant (quantitative analysis using preset angular regions), and Profile (profile fitting which can separate unresolved line clusters in single lines).
In Eva, you can display 3D data in a X-Z view, called Level view. A Level gives the Y-value of an iso-intensity curve. When in the Level view, a contour of an iso-intensity tends to be one point, it is clearly because it corresponds to a local maximum on the 3D data. Such local maximums are called Maximums and can be located automatically in the Level view. For seek of simplicity, Maximums and Levels are both listed under Level in the main toolbox, but are displayed with different icons. The look and handling of Maximums are similar to the ones of Peaks, but for 3D data instead of 2D data.
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FLUENT is the CFD solver of choice for complex flows ranging from incompressible (low subsonic) to midly compressible )transonic) to highly compressible (supersonic abd hypersonic) flows. Providing a choice of solver options, FLUENT delivers optimum convergence and accuracy for a wide range of flow regimes. The wealth of physical models in FLUENT allows you to accurately predict laminar, transitional and turbulent flows, various modes of heat transfer, chemical reaction, multiphase flows and other complex phenomena. Either structured mesh (FLUENT 4.5) or solution-adaptive unstructured (FLUENT 5.0) can be used.
The technology leadership of FLUENT for multiphase modeling has been further strengthened with the release of Version 4.5. First, new solution methods yield substantial improvements in the efficiency and robustness of free surface and Eulerian multiphase calculations. These methods include the Full Elimination Algorithm (FEA), a fully-coupled implicit approach for multiphase transport equations, and more efficient time-marching techniques. Improvements of an order of magnitude in solution time have been observed for some complex problems.
For granular (fluid-solid) multiphase models, like flows in risers and densely packed beds, FLUENT 4.5 includes enhanced physics that result in improved accuracy and a broader range of application. These enhancements include improvements to the treatment of granular temperature, solids pressure, solids bulk viscosity, interphase forces, and boundary conditions.
FLUENT 5 introduces multiphase modeling on unstructured meshes, with a new volume-of-fluid (VOF) scheme that yields high accuracy by preserving sharp interfaces between fluid regions. FLUENT 5 also includes an algebraic slip mixture model for very efficient calculation of multiphase applications such as bubbly flows and simpler gas-liquid or granular multiphase flows. A new cavitation model is also included.
FLUENT 4.5 includes many postprocessing enhancements tailored for mixing applications, including reporting of torque, power number, flow number, gas holdup, and computation of flow statistics (averages, standard deviations, minima/maxima) that are useful for blending studies and review of impeller pumping characteristics. MixSim 1.5, the specialty preprocessor for stirred tanks, will ship with FLUENT 4.5 and includes an expanded library of impellers and tank shapes.
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HSC Chemistry for Windows is a chemical reaction and equilibrium software package which offers an efficient method to examine chemical reaction systems on your personal computer. All calculations utilize an integrated thermochemical database that includes more than 7600 compounds.
HSC offers seven calculation options:
Calculations are completely menu-driven, and the program includes on-line help providing instructions, examples, and theoretical considerations. Results can be displayed graphically or as tabular data.
HSC users can rapidly test synthesis or production idea on the computer before beginning expensive and time-consuming laboratory or industrial-scale experiments. HSC's result will, for example, show the effect of temperature or raw material amount on the compositions of products and by-products. HSC helps to avoid expensive trial-and-error chemistry by allowing the chemist or engineer to determine optimal reaction conditions for their experimental investigations. Finally, the integrated thermochemical database and graphical interface makes the system ideally suited for teaching equilibrium thermodynamics in physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, and chemical engineering curriculums.
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://www.ari.net/ars/hsc.html
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Because of its unequaled depth of application integration, only I-DEAS Master Series makes it possible for you to create, simulate, optimize, document, build, and test your products all within a single electronic environment. From initial conceptual design through final manufacturing, you can capture your complete design intent and build precise electronic descriptions, or "master models," of your products.
The communication power of a fully detailed digital master model is overwhelmingly persuasive. You can not only show exactly what your product is going to look like, but you can also build in precise details about geometry, topology, form features, design history, variational dimensions, geometric constraints, engineering equations, surface finish, performance characteristics, advanced kinematics, dimensional and form tolerances, design rules, application knowledge, assemblies, drawings, simulation results, machining parameters, NC toolpaths, assembly sequences, and more.
What were once viewed as "downstream" applications can now be used to influence and optimize your designs. Performance simulations and manufacturability studies can help you spot and solve problems when the cost of change is at a minimum.
Every member of the team will have confidence in the efficacy of your designs. You'll complete projects more rapidly, and minimize risks because you can ultimately do a much better job of engineering than was ever before possible.
You'll even be able to anticipate future product service needs and after-market opportunities.
You may still want to generate drawings and build physical models of your designs. The completeness and precision provided with I-DEAS Master Series also makes it easy to generate drawings and rapid prototypes directly from the master model.
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The Image Processing Tool Kit (IPTK) provides a comprehensive set of image processing and analysis tools in the form of Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. They include plug-ins that duplicate Photoshop functions, but make them easier (usually with a fewer number of steps). Examples include image math functions (subtraction, addition, division, multiplication), image brightness and contrast functions, image color manipulation functions (color filter, median calculation, and optimal gray), and some of the convolution functions. Other plug-ins provide advanced image processing functions that only exist in high level image processing programs, such as measurement functions (features, fractal dimension, grain size, size and shape), morphology functions (erode, dilate, close, open, skeletonize), rank filters (top hat, rolling ball, median), and fast Fourier transforms (forward, backward, power spectrum, and so on).
The installation CD also provides a nice tutorial on various aspects of image processing. The tutorial is in PDF format and can be read using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (provided on the CD). There are eight main sections, with three appendices. The main sections describe image acquisition, image processing to correct defects, image processing for enhancement, frequency space processing, thresholding and segmentation, binary image processing, stereology, and feature-specific measurements. The appendices cover the plug-ins themselves (briefly), the sample images, and other image processing programs.
The Photoshop Plug-In routines are located in a series of hierarchical sub-menus under the main Filters menu, organized by the main topics listed below. IP-Process, IP-Rank, IP-Rank, IP-Math, IP-Adjust, IP-Color, IP-FFT, IP-Morphology, IP-EDM, IP-Boolean, IP-Threshold, IP-Measure, IP-Render. Many of the routines in the plug-in modules are adapted from the dedicated high-end Macintosh image analysis program Prism, also written by Reindeer Games and distributed worldwide through Scanalytics (you can also contact them by e-mail ).
FYI, The Image Processing Toolkit was produced by John Russ, a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University with much of the programming work having been done by his son Chris.
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Maple V Release 5.1 is a powerful interactive computer algebra system that provides a complete mathematical environment for the manipulation of symbolic algebraic expressions, arbitrary-precision numerics, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics, and programming. It is used worldwide by educators, scientists, engineers, researchers, and students in the physical sciences, business management, economics, finance, and engineering. Specific applications include VLSI design, robotics, laser design, and brain research.
Maple V's extensive library features over 2,700 functions that are used in many scientific and engineering applications. Maple V is available for a wide range of computer systems. Derived from over a decade of world-class research, development, and customer service, Maple V Release 5.1 provides all the right tools for users in education, research, and industry.
NEW features in Release 5.1:
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Mathcad combines a powerful technical computing environment centered on real math notation with a flexible, full-featured word processor and presentation tool. Mathcad enables users to enter, edit, and solve equations, and to visualize and communicate results graphically. Mathcad 8 Professional, a breakthrough in technical computing, is the only desktop application that combines the math, visualization and collaboration power required to meet the calculation, analysis, and reporting demands of professionals in every branch of engineering and scientific research as well as students in every quantitative discipline.
Enriched with a new compute engine, enhanced analytical power, and broader support for complex problem solving, Mathcad 8 Professional meets the computational requirements of more diverse users than ever . With enhanced 3-D graphics, Mathcad 8 delivers the speed, clarity, detail and control of a high performance workstation to an inexpensive Windows desktop. Additionally, sophisticated communication, collaboration and documentation tools improve efficiency and information sharing while helping to meet the reporting requirements for key industry standards such as ISO 9000. With complete support for OLE 2 automation, Mathcad 8 Professional provides an open and extensible environment able to interoperate fully with other desktop and engineering applications, including spreadsheets, CAD packages and technical products such as MATLAB , Autodesk's AutoCAD , Visio and Intergraph's Imagineer .
Mathcad lets you integrate real math notation, graphs and text in a unique interactive worksheet. So itís the perfect tool for performing, documenting and communicating your technical work. Plus you get even more math power and richer analytical, reporting, and presentation capabilities including OpenGL® 3D graphics. Built-in Web-based publishing and collaboration tools, including Microsoft® Internet Explorer, make it easy to share your results. Both editions are updated for Windows NT/95/98 and take full advantage of OLE2 to work seamlessly with virtually all Windows applications.
Mathcad ís unique free-form interface lets you integrate real math notation, graphs and text within a single interactive worksheet -- just like you would with pencil and paper. And its exclusive "live" self-documenting technology provides you with the perfect environment for exploring even the most complex technical problems -- while saving you time and effort. Plus, its advanced visualization, presentation, and collaboration capabilities give you the tools you need to both create and share high-impact presentations for clients or colleagues.
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://www.mathsoft.com/mathcad/
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MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language.
Whatever the objective - an algorithm, analysis, graph, report, or simulation - MATLAB gets you there. The flexible, interactive MATLAB language lets engineers and scientists express their technical ideas simply. The extensive and powerful numeric computing methods and graphics allows testing and exploring alternative ideas easily, while the integrated development environment makes it easy to produce fast, practical results.
The name MATLAB stands for matrix laboratory. MATLAB was originally written to provide easy access to matrix software developed by the LINPACK and EISPACK projects, which together represent the state of the art in software for matrix computation. Today MATLAB is used in a variety of application areas including signal and image processing, control system design, financial engineering, and medical research. The open architecture makes it easy to use MATLAB and companion products to explore data and create custom tools that provide early insights and competitive advantages.
The MATLAB Product Family includes tools for:
MATLAB also features a family of application-specific solutions called toolboxes. Very important to most users of MATLAB, toolboxes are comprehensive collections of MATLAB functions (M-files) that extend the MATLAB environment in order to solve particular classes of problems. Researched and developed by experts in their fields, toolboxes let you learn, apply, and compare best-of-class techniques, allowing you to evaluate different approaches without writing the code.
Areas in which toolboxes are available include signal processing, control systems design, dynamic systems simulation, systems identification, neural networks, and others.
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Originally developed by statistics professors for professors, MINITAB has become the most trusted and respected statistical teaching tool on the market. It's used in over 2,000 colleges and referenced in over 300 textbooks. More students have learned statistics using MINITAB than any other software package. MINITABës broad, powerful capabilities and exceptional ease of use make it an outstanding teaching tool for any statistics course.
MINITAB provides extensive statistical capabilities all in one package. There are no additional modules or separate packages to buy, learn, and maintain, so your institution can have the benefit of cutting edge software and stay within budget. MINITAB's broad functionality and flexibility make it an outstanding tool for any introductory course, and its advanced statistics features can be used in higher-level courses. Histograms, descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, test statistics, p-values, regression analyses, and analysis of variance are just a fraction of MINITAB's wide-ranging toolset.
Creating lectures and projects that students find interesting, understandable, and relevant can be a challenge. MINITAB comes to your assistance with more than 200 documented, real-world data sets that can help you plan lectures and develop projects that will engage your students. More than 300 textbooks on the market today reference MINITAB, and Minitab's Companion Textbook List can help you choose one that is right for your course. MINITAB's fully-customizable graphics tools help you make eye-catching presentations that give your students clear, visual interpretations of statistical concepts.
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PFC2D (Particle Flow Code in 2 Dimensions) is a program for modeling the movement and interaction of assemblies of arbitrarily-sized circular particles. The particles may represent individual grains in a granular material or they may be bonded together to represent a solid material, in which case, fracturing occurs via progressive bond breakage. Solution by the distinct-element method allows dynamic stress waves to propagate through the particle assembly, which may exhibit slip or separation, with unlimited displacement, under the action of applied loading. Bonded assemblies exhibit complex macroscopic behaviors such as strain softening, dilation, and fracture that arise from extensive microcracking. The particles are rigid but deform locally at contact points using a soft-contact approach, in which finite normal and shear stiffnesses are taken to represent measurable contact stiffnesses. Any property or parameter, including particle radius, may be changed at any time during a simulation. The PFC2D codes are ideal research tools, because they provide a powerful and flexible simulation environment within which one can create instances of different synthetic materials, subject them to general loadings, and observe their behavior. In addition to modeling bulk flow and mixing of materials, the codes are also well-suited to support fundamental studies of micro- and macro-cracking in solid bodies including damage accumulation leading to fracture, dynamic breakage and seismic response.
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://www.itascacg.com/software.html#pfc3d
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POLYFLOW is a finite-element based CFD package for the analysis of polymer processing, including extrusion die design, blow molding, and fiber spinning, as well as other materials processing applications. POLYFLOW is particularly well known for its extensive library of viscoelastic fluid models. In the area of extrusion die design, POLYFLOW has the unique capability for inverse die design: given the desired extrudate shape, POLYFLOW will calculate the required die lip shape. POLYFLOW is the code of choice for Fortune 500 resin producers and an increasing number of smaller plastics and rubber processing companies.
POLYFLOW is a unique, finite element-based, general purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics program which simulates the flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, with a special emphasis on rheologically complex liquids in industrial processes.
POLYFLOW is a fully interactive package and its ease of use makes it the ideal tool for engineers and scientists to study 2D and 3D flow and heat transfer problems, steady or time-dependent, with fixed or moving boundaries.
A major objective of POLYFLOW is computer aided processing: by using the computer as a laboratory, the engineer understands, modifies and improves processes in which flows of viscous liquids play a dominant role. POLYFLOW lets you easily experiment a wide variety of parameters to design the right process and provides a wealth of information to optimize the design and obtain a quality product. POLYFLOW can make a significant contribution in reducing the time and cost of experimentation, reducing production line down time and wasted material, and therefore reducing the global costs of getting you product to market!
It is being used to model processes for fluids such as polymer solutions, polymer melts, rubber, oils, detergents, printing inks or paints, muds, liquid food stuff and molten glass, among others. POLYFLOW contains unique features for the calculation of the important and frequently encountered viscoelastic effects in industrial flows, for the prediction of free surfaces and interfaces and the prediction of the die shape to obtain an extrudate of prescribed shape.
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://www.polyflow.be/
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SigmaPlot provides all the fundamental tools you need to analyze your data from basic statistics to advanced mathematical calculations. Click a toolbar button to instantly generate summary statistics including 95% and 99% confidence intervals. Run t-tests and linear regressions with ease, fit a curve or plot a function and get a report of the results in seconds, use built-in transforms to massage your data and to create special graph types AND automate everything you do. With SigmaPlot it's all so simple!
Curve fit your data with a few mouse clicks as the Regression Wizard guides you through the process. The Regression Wizard automatically determines your initial parameters, writes a statistical report, saves your equation to your SigmaPlot Notebook, and adds your results to existing graphs or creates a new one! SigmaPlot offers robust multidimensional nonlinear curve- fitting, piecewise continuous, multifunctional, weighted, Boolean functions and more-up to 10 variables and 25 parameters. You can even add your own powerful curve fits to the Regression Wizard. Use the Regression Wizard to curve fit one of more than 100 built-in graphically-illustrated equations or your own. The Regression Wizard leads you through every step of the curve fitting process.
Visualize mathematical models by plotting 2D and 3D functions. Plot a function by selecting it and specifying the parameters and the range. Create your own functions and save them for future use. Plot functions on new or existing graphs or even plot multiple functions simultaneously using different parameter values. You can plot functions over any specified range, including axis ranges. Easily plot more than 100 built-in graphically-illustrated function or your own using the Function Wizard.
Manipulate more than one billion data points in SigmaPlot's powerful scientific data worksheet. Organize graph pages, SigmaPlot or Excel data worksheets, curve fit results and reports effectively in the SigmaPlot Notebook. Create or open an existing Excel spreadsheet to analyze your data-Excel's menus seamlessly merge with SigmaPlot's menus. Use Excel in-cell formulas, pivot tables and macros and then analyze and graph your results from an Excel spreadsheet right within SigmaPlot.
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://www.spss.com/software/science/sigmaplot/
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Simulink® is an interactive tool for modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic systems. Commonly used in control system design, DSP design, communication system design, and other simulation applications, Simulink enables you to build graphical block diagrams, simulate dynamic systems, evaluate system performance, and refine your designs. With seamless integration to MATLAB®, Simulink offers immediate access to an extensive range of analysis and design tools.
Key Features of Simulink include:
Simulink provides an interactive, block-diagram environment for modeling and simulating dynamic systems. It includes an extensive library of predefined blocks that you can use to build graphical models of your systems using drag-and-drop operations. Supported model types include linear, nonlinear, continuous-time, discrete-time, multirate, conditionally executed, and hybrid systems. Models can be grouped into hierarchies to create a simplified view of components or subsystems. High-level information is presented clearly and concisely, while detailed information is easily hidden in subsystems within the model hierarchy. Simulink has many features that allow customization, especially with regard to incorporating existing user C code. In addition, simulations can be run interactively or in batch mode from the MATLAB command line.
Please refer to the following URL for further information: http://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink/
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SuperPro Designer is a superset of BatchPro, EnviroPro, and BioPro Designer. The combination of manufacturing and environmental unit operation models in the same package enables the user to concurrently design and evaluate manufacturing and end-of-pipe treatment processes and practice waste minimization via pollution prevention as well as pollution control.
SuperPro Designer is a valuable tool for process and product development engineers and scientists, environmental consulting engineers, and treatment/disposal plant engineers and managers. It enables the user to efficiently develop, assess, and optimize environmentally beneficial technologies. It provides under a single umbrella modeling of manufacturing and end-of-pipe treatment processes, project economic evaluation, and environmental impact assessment.
Key Features of SuperPro Designer:
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Visual Fortran for Windows NT is a complete development system that features DIGITAL's industry-leading native Fortran 95 compiler offering the same proven technology previously available only on DIGITAL UNIX and OpenVMS systems, including proprietary GEM code generation and optimization technology.
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://www.digital.com/fortran/index.html
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Visual Studio 6.0 is a complete suite of tools for developing software applications based on components, based on the Windows Distributed interNet Application (DNA) architecture. Visual Studio 6.0 addresses all aspects of Windows DNA application development, including integrated tools for application design, user interface development, middle-tier component development and assembly, database programming and design, performance analysis, and team-based development support. Visual Studio allows developers to choose the programming language they already know (including C++, Basic, Java, or FoxPro) and to choose a language that best suits the technical requirements of a specific component of the application. Visual Studio 6.0 includes:
Please refer to the following URL for additional information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
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