GRC NEWS RELEASE 00-046



00-046  

For Release: August 14, 2000


Pamelia Caswell/Lori Rachul
Media Relations Office
(216)433-5795/8806
p.caswell@grc.nasa.gov
<h3>NASA Glenn Workshop Targets Industrial and Research Designers</h3> 
Specialists will learn to marry the worlds of design and research at 
NASA's Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop at the Forum Conference 
Center in Cleveland, OH, on August 21 through 25. 

This year's workshop, with its theme bridging the gap between research 
and design, is a blend of application-oriented presentations and 
hands-on training in state of the art thermal and fluids analysis 
tools such as SINDA, FIDAP, CFDesign and Thermal Desktop. Earlier 
tools of these types in use by industry have cut either 
design-to-market time or manufacturing time and costs.



In addition to papers by authors with specialties in thermal, fluids, 
propulsion and interdisciplinary analyses, the workshop offers vendor 
displays, product demonstrations and a two-day short course on 
computational thermal analysis and it's importance to the design 
process.



"At NASA Glenn, our chief emphasis is on aerospace systems said," 
Derrick Cheston, chief of the Thermal and Fluids Systems Design and 
Analysis Branch. "But many of the tools we in the research community 
use, or have designed, have application to systems being used in 
manufacturing right here in Northeast Ohio."



The conference is sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, 
OH--NASA's lead center for propulsion research and OAI (the Ohio 
Aerospace Institute), also of Cleveland.



For more information about the workshop and how to register visit:

<dl> <dd>http://edwww.grc.nasa.gov/thermal/tfaws/</dd> </dl> 

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