Blue Ridge Numerics’ CFdesign 2010 Received NASA Tech Briefs Product of the Year Award

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – May 6, 2010: Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc., the leader in upfront CFD software, today announced that CFdesign 2010 has been named Product of the Year by NASA Tech Briefs magazine. The 15th annual NASA Tech Briefs Readers’ Choice Product of the Year winners is a select group drawn from the 12 NASA Tech Briefs Product of the Month recipients throughout 2009. At the end of the year, NASA Tech Briefs readers’ are asked to vote on a Product of the Year from those 12 monthly nominees.

 NASA Tech Briefs Product of the Year Award, Blue Ridge Numerics, CFdesign
Linda L. Bell, NASA Tech Briefs Editorial Director, explains “The NASA Tech Briefs Products of the Year are those with the highest practical value and technical merit for our design engineering audience. Selected by the readers of NASA Tech Briefs, the winners represent the most significant new products introduced to the design engineering community during 2009.”

“What makes this award so special is that the winners are selected by the readers of NASA Tech Briefs,” says Ed Williams, CEO, Blue Ridge Numerics. Ed continues “we are extremely honored to have received the award this year. It is a great testament to our continued commitment to bring our multi-scenario design study environment for upfront CFD software to the engineering community, and helping to drive innovative fluid flow and thermal product designs to market faster than anyone else.”

About CFdesign
Using CFdesign engineers are able to make insightful design decisions based on fluid flow and heat transfer simulations while continuing to work in their CAD environment. The simulations begin from within the CAD package using the design study manager, and the native model along with its associative information is opened within the CFdesign design study environment. The unique multi-scenario design study environment in CFdesign 2010 allows engineers to view multiple designs at one time and visually compare the different results. CFdesign enables engineers to obtain accurate simulation results early in the development process where the value of true upfront computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software is greatest.

About Blue Ridge Numerics
Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. is the fastest-growing CFD software company in the world and consistently ranked among the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. The company's CFdesign upfront CFD software integrates comprehensive fluid-flow and heat-transfer simulation into early phases of design and engineering, when companies can dramatically improve product quality, time-to-market, and ultimately profitability through the product life cycle.

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Blue Ridge Numerics
Ph: 1.434.977.2764 ext.120
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