CD-adapco Announces 2011 Academic Paper Contest winner

By DE Editors

CD-adapco has informed the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s, David Cooper that he is the winner of its 2011 Academic Paper Contest.

Students and researchers who were enrolled in CD-adapco’s Academic Program and had completed a CFD simulation project between 2009 and 2011 were invited to submit a paper describing their simulation work for that project. Cooper’s paper was chosen by CD-adapco’s panel of judges. He is receiving an all-expense paid trip to the STAR American Conference 2011. The trip includes flights and accommodations, and the opportunity to present his work to the gathered audience of distinguished industrial simulation experts.

Cooper, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, took a CFD Basics class last semester and used STAR-CCM+ for the design of a micro-air vehicle for his Senior Design Project. The paper he submitted, titled “Performance of a Proposed Micro-Aerial Vehicle Design,” exhibited a good application of a number of STAR-CCM+ techniques to an applied engineering design that would be difficult to test experimentally.

“I am excited and honored to be selected as the CD-adapco academic paper contest winner,” cooper says. “My team and I were designing and constructing a micro air vehicle and simulation was the only means available to evaluate critical design parameters such as the amount of power required and ideal wing motion.  Luckily I had access to the intuitive and powerful tool, STAR-CCM+.  I thank CD-adapco for their consideration and look forward to seeing everyone in June.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.