XFlow uses a novel particle simulation technology that improves upon existing methods and overcomes many of the shortcomings of other CFD tools. It has a coherent formulation that minimizes interpolation error and guarantees the physically accurate imposition of boundary conditions.

Sample videos demonstrating the product are available from the XFLOW homepage.

Next Limit have explored other fields for potential applications of this technology, looking to see whether the simulation concepts can be applied to complex behaviours which are currently not well understood.

Such as

• Traffic simulation
  The particles can represent the flow of traffic in roads. Every particle behaves like a car and depends on other cars in the locality.
• Cell simulation
  The particles can represent the behavior of cells in interaction with the vicinities.
• Crowd simulation
  The particles can represent the behavior of a crowd in different critical conditions, for example the evacuation of a public area.

Check out videos demonstrating possible applications of the technology from the XFLOW homepage.

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Havok FX is designed for GPUs supporting Shader Model 3.0 which includes the NVIDIA GeForce 6 and 7 Series GPUs.

You can read the Press Release at

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_30478.html

or other reports on the development at the Inquirer – Nvidia SLI Physics is a fat pipe dream

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30434

or the Nvidia SLI Physics Technology Report at www.rojakpot.com.

http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=303&pgno=0

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http://www.virtools.com

In related news, Autodesk has acquired (22 August) Solid Dynamics who provide motion analysis and simulation technology.

http://www.solid-dynamics.com

A recent poll of Autodesk manufacturing customers showed that dynamic simulation was ranked as a key technology requirement in helping them achieve significant cost reductions and time-to-market improvements.

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