CMLAir_v705_setup.exe

This release incorporates the new CML Finite Element Solver version 0.95 into the interface. The speed of the Finite Element solver has been improved since the release of version 0.92. Most features supported by Quick 4 are not fully implemented in the Finite Element Solver.

• Sensitivities
• Elastic-Plastic contact model
• User defined slip model
• Ramp rails
• Rails that lie below the base recess of the slider.
• Slider geometry works but it's a bit different than CMLAir/Quick 4. In CMLAir, if a rail with a deeper recess, overlaps a rail with a shallower recess. The recess for the overlapped region will be determined by which rail has a larger rail index value. In the finite element solver, the overlapped region will automatically be at the shallower recess.
• User defined geometry and regional height adjustments
• Use existing grid input option (ioldg)
• Humidity simulations
• Postprocessor:
  • Massflow Analysis
  • Shear Analysis
  • Pressure Analysis
  • Lube Depletion
  • Massflow plot

CMLAir_v704_setup.exe

This release is a small update to CMLAir, Quick 4 and Dyn

CMLAir 7.04 features and changes

• Modified the air parameters and altitudes. A PowerPoint presentation describing the changes can be found here.
• Small changes to dynamic solver and interface to better reflect irrelevant parameters for Finite Element simulations.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements (fixed humidity edit box 6/23/08).

CML Finite Element Solver  (version 0.92) 

This is a development release of CML's finite element air bearing solver. The solver is still in heavy development but we wanted to give our members a peek at the work we're doing to improve our solvers. The solver can solve many of the air bearing designs that Quick 4 has trouble with. It's still a bit rough around the edges but getting better every day.

Changes in this release:

• Adaptive meshing has been reworked and should be more robust and easier to understand.
• Meshing.dat has been modified
• The solver will attempt to describe lines that define the rail and outer wall boundaries for the mesher.  This results in more accurate representations of the slider. 
• Output files have been modified.  The intermediate sliderx files are now deleted at the end of the simulation.  The new output files are described in the readme file.
• The y coordinate of the slider nodes has been corrected.  Previously the nodes output by the solver were a mirror image of the slider in the y direction.

Quick428.exe

Some folks are still using Quick 428. This release fixes the expiration date of the solver

Dyn439.exe

Some folks are still using Dyn439.exe. This release fixes the expiration date of the solver

CMLAir 6.57 New Features and Changes:

• Quick 4 is significantly faster and more stable for almost all cases. The speed improvements have been achieved by modifying the grid generation and multigrid portions of the solver.
• The static results table has been improved.
• The ability to view real-time simulation results while a simulation is running has been added. This feature is available from the options menu in the solver output window.
• It is now possible to zoom in and out in the rail design window.
• New User Defined Geometry allows multiple regions to be specified.
• BUG FIX: A bug in the interface affecting the importing the xf0 (pitch offset) parameter of dynamics.def has been fixed. Things should be importing correctly now.
• BUG FIX: (12/6/05) User defined geometry is now generated correctly in the dynamic solver. Also, Dyn439.exe now outputs geom.dat which can be used to cHeck the slider geometry.
• BUG FIX: (7/17/06) Interface should now support an unlimited number of rails and rail points.

• Linux Solver Binaries CML Solvers compiled for i386 hardware running Linux (Updated 10/20/04)

Interface: MS-Windows 95/NT user interface for Quick4, Quick5, and Dyn4 solver (above). Visual creation of solver input files, local and remote execution functionality, graphical 2-d and 3-d post-processing, on-line help. Distributed with MS-Windows solver binaries. 

• CMLAir is not compatible with the CML Dynamic L/UL Solver. It is compatible with the standard CML Dynamic Air Bearing Solver.