News

March 20, 2008

Barracuda version 12.1 released:

Barracuda version 12.1 with new features that broaden its use with engineering applications to particle flow behavior in diverse industrial unit operations was released on March 20, 2008.  Based upon the CPFD^® technology, the software accurately treats discrete particulate solids of any size-distribution, under dilute-to-dense loadings in a gas or liquid flow system.  Applications are broad across petrochemical, chemical, power generation, and material processing, such as risers, cyclones, deep-bed reactors, CFB power plants, coal or biomass gasifiers, and filtration/settling.  The new version 12.1 includes numerous general enhancements: treatment of wall-particle interactions, LES turbulence and wall shear, the ability to dynamically re-read flow boundary conditions, and numerical treatment of liquid-solid flows with fully-implicit coupling.  Users requested special graphics to help understand their complex, three-dimension flows containing millions of particles; the graphical output now includes time-averaged solids and fluid massflux.  Testing of this new version was the most thorough ever, and included large-scale experimental data from the PSRI. 

March 11, 2008

Barracuda is now a registered trademark:

CPFD Software, LLC received the registered trademark for Barracuda from the USPTO on March 11, 2008.

February 28, 2008

Dr. Zhao to present paper at AIChE Spring National Meeting:

Dr. Paul Zhao is scheduled to present a paper on Liquid Injection into Fluidized Beds at the AIChE Spring National Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Zhao's presentation will be part of Session 139 located in Room 288 of the New Orleans Convention Center.

February 07, 2008

SEEFOAM is now a registered trademark:

CPFD Software, LLC received the registered trademark for SEEFOAM from the USPTO on January 1, 2008.

November 02, 2007

CPFD Software to exhibit at ASME Congress:

CPFD Software, LLC will be an exhibitor at the ASME Congress in Seattle, WA on November 11 - 14 in booth number 106.

November 02, 2007

Dr. Williams to present papers at the AIChE meeting in Salt Lake City:

Dr. Ken Williams is presenting two papers at the AIChE meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. On Monday, November 6th, Predictions of Cyclone Wear (paper 74g), and on Tuesday, November 7th, Validation with PSRI Data on Bed Entrainment with Dr. Ray Cocco (paper 285f).

Dr. Williams will also be attending the Particle Technology Forum (PTF) and sponsoring wine at the dinner on Wednesday evening.  

August 27, 2007

Barracuda version 12.0.5 released August 24, 2007:

The latest version of Barracuda continues to build on its unique numerical technology for dense-phase particle flows. The new version includes a turbulence model for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) wherein the subgrid-scale physics is modeled using the Smagorinsky approach. This has been found to be an overall improvement for general turbulence modeling, but was done especially for liquid-driven particle flow applications. Other features include improved particle flow boundary conditions, and a greatly expanded built-in database for gaseous species.