New Releases
New Features:
Fast Multipole Method (FMM)
New Field Parameters
New Viscous Drag Mode: Boundary Layer Momentum Integral
New Coordinate Systems Rotation Tool
New File Export Option: Force Distributions Export File
Substantial Speedup Enhancements
Copy/Paste Spreadsheet Data
Enhanced Meshing Quality
Enhanced Mesh Hole Filling
Updated Scripting A.P.I.
Fixes:
Mesh Diagnostics On Non-Degenerate Faces Only
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
New Features:
Relaxed Kutta Separation Modeling
Boundary Layer Transition: Improved Viscous Forces Model
Advanced Aligned Mesher for Anisotropic Quad Meshes
Automated Pressure-Spike Cleanup
Steady-State Rotary Solver for Hover
Extended IGES Entities and CAD Solids Import
Extended CAD Create Intersection Tools
New Solver Sweeper Toolbox Export Options for FEA
Automated Mesh Quality Improvement Tool
Solver Field Parameter Threshold Selection Options
Expanded Selection Tools
Solver Color-map Range Cut-off Tools
Updated Scripting API
Fixes:
IGES CAD Planes Parameterization
IGES CAD Surface Duplication
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
New Features:
- Enhanced unsteady solver capabilities
- Improved rotor induced velocity models
- Enhanced parallel processing
- Compatibility refinement meshing tools
- Structural finite element modeling pressure export
- Abaqus input file geometry import
- Plot3D CAD reconstruction import
CAD Create Tools:
- Rotational surfaces between drawing curves
- Transferring meshing curves to drawing curves
- Mass-flow inlet boundaries
- Inlet boundary meshing tools
- Scripting-based solver sweep runs
Fixes:
- Improved CAD orientation on import
- Compressibility issues at very high subsonic Mach numbers
- Simulation file saves on network drives
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
New Features:
Stall prediction, CLMAX and non-linear aerodynamics
- Laminar/Turbulent boundary layer transition
- Stability & Control Toolbox
- Higher-order compressibility models
- Improved moments computation
- New freestream velocity distributions
- Automated surface streamlines for viscous loads
- New CAD Repair options
- Updated scripting API
Fixes:
- Improved CAD import robustness
- Geometry face orientation issues
- Improved robustness in CAD-based meshing
- Miscellaneous bug fixes