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Unread 03-31-2004, 01:47 AM   #62
BillA
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perhaps, but this touches on my heartburn with CFD for wbs
sure, one can sim a cup, test, correct, and validate
but this does not address the cups' interconnection necessary for any device calc;
nor, more importantly, does it enable 'looking' at the effects of cup changes (of any sort I suspect)

yea, perhaps better than nothing - but for me not worth my time if not predictive
Flotherm is very capable for many things, but I have reservations about its abitity to model mbs w/o extensive parametric validation
if I have to pay $28K pa per seat for Flotherm, plus a pHD to run it; and then STILL have to test 'till hell freezes over to validate, . . . its cheaper to build and test
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