Release Notes for POLYFLOW 3.10.4 Fluent Inc.

December 14, 2005

Introduction
The POLYFLOW 3.10.4 release contains enhancements and defect xes. Enhancements are listed in Section 2 of this document. Defect xes are listed in Section 3 of this document. New platforms supported are listed in Section 4 of this document. Known limitations are listed in Section 5. An up-to-date list of known and xed defects in this release is accessible from our online User Services Center (www.fluentusers.com) in the Release Information section under POLYFLOW 3.10 Product Information.

Enhancements in POLYFLOW 3.10.4

Enhancements made in POLYFLOW 3.10.4 are listed below. Solver / Numerics Extension of the UDF to allow time or evolution variables (CR 12591) Extension of the evaluation of the UDF to all integration points (keyword protected) (CR 8174) New PMAT functions: Gaussian function Exponential Smoothed ramp Support of more than 10,000 transient (or evolution) steps Remove the error message during the conversion of a res le (CR 13233) New Keyword CONVSTRESS (CR 6338) CONVSTRESS requires a convergence on the stress but the dierence between prediction and correction does not impact the time step

 Mesh / Remeshing Avoid any volume loss while using adaptive remeshing with TGRID (CR 30120) Ability to specify the normal direction along plane of symmetry (CR 6083) Ability to export an .msh le into a FLUENT .cas le The SYMTRY block, used for periodic conditions, can also be used on the coordinates eld (CR 11132) Note: When adaptive meshing is activated, we recommend that you create an .msh le at each time step to ensure that you can restart from any time step. Models Information about completion of contact detection available in the listing (CR 15073) Convergence on velocity now required for simulations involving both contact detection and uid structure interaction Skip of useless contact detection in absence of adaptive remeshing Control the access to Mold with temperature calculation (CR 13332) Improvement of the temperature at the interface between solid and liquid for non-conforming mesh (CR 13332) Boundary / Initial Condition Improve the readibility of the thickness boundary condition menu (CR 37882) Material Properties Automatic access to the Material Library from POLYDATA Better initialization of parameters for tting of viscoelastic and Generalized Newtonian models [e.g. x facinf =0 for the Cross Law (tting)] (CR 35980) Automatic tting for viscoelastic relaxation time(s) (CR 35600) In POLYMAT, improvement of the log-display of abscissa for a *.prb le ouput from POLYFLOW (CR 38854) POLYMAN The polyman..ini le will be stored in %USERPROFILE% on Windows if the %HOMEDIR% is not dened Ability to leave POLYMAN even if there is a problem while saving the *.prj le Robustness improved by checking the wxCongBase to avoid possible crashes (CR 38076)

 POLYSTAT Ability to read and Save a session (CR 38347) Option to name the seeding zones (CR 4316) Correction of the standard deviation calculation Improved visualization of the object list Improved savings of trajectories in mixing (binary) les (CR 14176) Note: It is still recommended that you save trajectories in an ASCII format. Postprocessing Visualization of the probes points while dening them in POLYDATA Support of the I-Deas 11 output format (CR 36343)

Defects Fixed in this Release

The following defects were xed in POLYFLOW 3.10.4: Improve robustness for the interpolation of the temperature eld (CR40668) Some conversion of the GAMBIT neutral le led to incorrect mesh le (CR39938) Correction of the parison programming optimization if the simulation involves adaptive meshing (CR 39215) PMAT dependence upon the Third Invariant of D (CR 35936) Adding pyramid elements in the search of the nearest node for a probe function Deletion of a mixing le in POLYSTAT (CR 34349) Proper initialization of the nstepx in POLYDIAG for simulations involving restart (CR 39618) Inaccuracy for the calculation of the inertia terms on deforming meshes (CR 41358) Improve the upload of the CRV les in POLYCURVE ( CR 39122) Avoid POLYFLOW crash while restarting from adapt.msh (CR 39023) Zero pivot message for Contact Initialization in 2.5 D axisymmetric (CR 38076) Distinction between old and new tensor formag for CSV conversion (CR 35233 & 33640)

 Improved backwards compatibility : POLYDATA stops while reading a V3.6.2 data le (CR 35068) For a non isothermal problem with 2 uid parts non connected, it was not possible to put some upwinding (CR 34263) Better management of the maximum number of time steps when restarting with adaptive meshing. Diculty for FIDAP output for 2.5 D calculation steady state or evolution.

New Platforms Supported in POLYFLOW 3.10.4

Windows XP 64 Bits (POLYFLOW can run in parallel on this platform only via MKL parallelized BLAS routines.) Shared memory parallel version on AMD Opteron 64 bits and Intel EM64T 64 Bits A parallel version is available for Itanium (32 and 64 Bits) using the BLAS Libraries

Known Limitations
On some platforms, opening a new project in POLYMAN while an existing project is already open freezes POLYMAN. To avoid this problem, exit POLYMAN, then open the new project project in a new session. Note: Selecting from the list of recent projects works well if a project is already open.