Modelling and Simulation

Design Science has released MathType 6 for Macintosh, a major upgrade that adds support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Intel Macs, and Microsoft Office 2008.

DEM Solutions has released EDEM 2.1, the latest version of its multi-purpose modelling software used to simulate and optimise bulk material handling and processing operations

Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 7, which improves functionality by adding image processing, parallel HPC, new on-demand curated data, and more than 500 new functions in 12 application areas

Integrated Engineering Software has launched version 7.0 of its Electro electric field solver software for applications such as high voltage, shielding, cables, transformers, insulators, bushings, arresters and printed circuit boards.

LMS has introduced a new Fast Multipole BEM (Boundary Element Method) solver based on multipole expansion, which can be found in the company's Virtual.Lab Acoustics Rev 8 package

Integrated Engineering Software has released the latest version of its Singula modelling software for antenna analysis, which now handles highly lossy materials.

Comsol has introduced Comsol Multiphysics 3.5, an upgrade of its engineering and scientific software environment for modelling and simulating any physics-based system

Dadisp has released Dadisp/Octave - a menu-driven software module that simplifies octave, 1/3 octave and 1/N octave analysis used to characterise acoustic energy in a wide variety of applications.

Tech-X Corporation has released OOPIC Pro, version 2.0. OOPIC Pro is a particle-in-cell plasma physics simulation code that improves plasma physics education, solves challenging problems in basic research, and aids in plasma-processing equipment design, analysis and optimisation.

IPG Automotive and AVL have launched the driving dynamics simulation platform, CarMaker with an interface for the powertrain simulation tool AVL Cruise.