WILSONVILLE, Ore., Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the winners of its
second annual Don Miller Award for
Excellence in System-Level Thermo-Fluid Design. The award is named
after Don Miller, former research
director for British Hydromechanics Research (now BHR Group) in the
U.K., who served as one of the judges. Miller is also the author of
Internal Flow Systems, the book which served as the
foundation for Mentor Graphics FloMASTER™ software technology.
Award submissions were received from around the world, including
entrants from India, China, and Brazil.
The 2016 Don Miller Award winners were selected based on their
demonstration of excellence for a range of thermo-fluid design
applications, including automotive engine cooling, two-phased
refrigeration processes, and rail transport passenger comfort. A
team comprising Soujanya
Chintalapudi, Sundaram
Veeraraghavan, and Sampath Sathish
Kumar from Chrysler India Automotive, Pvt. Ltd. received the
first place award for their design featured in their SAE paper,
Simulation of Split Engine Cooling System. Their design used
a FloMASTER simulation model for a new method of developing a split
engine cooling system.
Two runners up were selected by the panel of judges.
Thiago Rubens Vieria Ebel from the
Federal University of Santa
Catarina, Department of Mechanical Engineering in
Brazil received his award fora
unique application of the FloMASTER tool used to understand the
water hammer effects that can occur in a novel refrigeration
system. The application was described in his thesis, Viability
Analysis and Computational Simulation of a Hydraulic Circuit for a
Magnetic Refrigeration System.
The second joint runner-up award went to the team of
Yifei Zhu, Yugong Xu, and Xiangdong
Chen from the School of Mechanical Electronic and Control
Engineering, Beijing Jiao Tong University in Beijing, China. They investigated the
interaction between the external environment and the internal air
flow through the ventilation of a high-speed train during
operation. They described it in their paper, Study On the
One-Dimensional Carriage and Ventilation System of High-Speed
Train,
"We congratulate this year's winners of our annual Don Miller Award for excellence in thermo-fluid
design applications, and we are impressed by the broad range of
submissions from our FloMASTER customers worldwide," stated Roland
Feldhinkel, general manager of Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis
Division. "We are proud of the innovations made possible by the use
of our technology, and we look forward to reviewing next year's
FloMASTER award submissions."
For more information on the Don
Miller Award, please visit:
https://www.mentor.com/products/mechanical/awards-publications/don-miller
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation
(NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and
software design solutions, providing products, consulting services
and award-winning support for the world's most successful
electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the
company reported revenues over the last 12 months of approximately
$1.18 billion. Corporate headquarters
are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web
site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor and FloMASTER are registered trademarks
of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names
are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
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