Release Notes for POLYFLOW 3.

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Introduction
The POLYFLOW 3.10 release contains new features and defect fixes. New features
are listed in Section 2 of this document. Known limitations are listed in Section 3.
A list of known and fixed defects in this release is accessible from our online User
Services Center (www.fluentusers.com) in the Release Information section under
POLYFLOW 3.10 Product Information.

New Features in POLYFLOW 3.10

New features in POLYFLOW 3.10 are listed below.
Solver
Parametric studies (using the evolution technique)
Models
Fluid Structure Interaction
DEVSS formulation for viscoelastic flow
Doufas - McHugh crystallization model
Boundary/ Initial Condition
Slip along the screw using the Mesh Superposition Technique
Specified normal and/or tangential force in combination with normal
and/or tangential displacement for Fluid Structure interaction
Export of recommended initial thickness profile for blow molding
Material Properties
Youngs Modulus (including thermal dependence)
Poisson Coefficient (including thermal dependence)
Automatic fitting for stress - strain curves in POLYMAT

 Mesh
Sizing function for 3D adaptive meshing
Adaptive meshing for large variation of quantities
Parallel processing / 64 bit supported platforms
Parallel processing for HP UX
Parallel processing using BLAS libraries on LINUX
Supported 64 bit version for SGI, HP-UX and SUN
LINUX Red hat 7.2 and higher
User Interface
WX Windows style environment for POLYDATA
User Defined Template
POLYMAN enhancements
Kill option
Japanese version
Option to zip output files
Data import and export
Interface to Visual Doc (third party optimization software)

Known Limitations of POLYFLOW 3.10

In addition to those limitations listed in the POLYFLOW 3.9 Releases Notes:
Simulations using the adaptive meshing method with TGrid (volume remeshing) may behave differently on different platforms because TGrid makes use of
random numbers. This leads to slightly different meshes.
When running POLYDATA on a remote system with the display on a different machine, the color of the background in the Graphics window might be
incorrect.
When using POLYSTAT under Windows 2000, POLYSTAT sometimes freezes
after a click on the FILE/DRAW stat menu item. A simple mouse click in the
shell window created by POLYMAN when it launched POLYSTAT fixes this
problem.
When using the Find feature of POLYMAN to explore a listing, a Debug dialog
box may appear when the string is not found. Just close the dialog box by
clicking on its Cancel button.

 When renaming a simulation in POLYMAN a message, There is already a

directory with this name. may appear even if all simulation names are different.
Just ignore the message.
On some systems, several blank lines appear at the top of windows with
scrolled lists. It may be necessary to use the scroll bar to access all of the
items in the list.
On some SGI machines, the text appearing in the POLYDIAG help viewer is
not complete.
On some X servers, the button selected as the default one (the one that is
activated if the user pushes the Enter key) appears slightly squeezed.
On some X servers, the GUI does not react normally if the Num Lock mode
of the keyboard is activated.

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