TROY – The Troy-based engineering technology provider Altair

said Thursday that its product development group, Altair Product Design,

has reached a new milestone having expanded to more than 800 engineering

and design staff across the world. The group has doubled its employee

count during the last 10years.

Altair also announced Garching, Germany based FluiDyna GmbH,

a renowned developer of fluid dynamics and numerical simulation technologies.

The companies will collaborate to develop graphics

processing unit-optimized computational fluid dynamics applications for

aerodynamics and multi-phase flows in complex geometries. In addition to a

technology roadmap to release a new virtual wind tunnel technology later this

year, Altair will be the exclusive worldwide reseller of FluiDyna’s ultraFluidX

and nanoFluidX CFD technologies.

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