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ICON presents the latest features of the iconCFD® Transonic module

Marseille, France 13 June 2019

Today ICON presents the latest features of the iconCFD® Transonic module at the 4th French/Belgian OpenFOAM® Users Conference in Polytech Marseille. Find out more at www.iconcfd.com.

iconCFD Conference, Korea 2019

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Seoul, South Korea on 19 November 2019.

iconCFD Conference, China 2019

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in China on 20-21 November 2019.

iconCFD Conference, Japan 2019

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Yokohama, Japan on 14-15 November 2019.

iconCFD Conference Day: Fri, 15 November 2019

iconCFD Conference, Japan 2018

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Yokohama, Japan on 8-9 November 2018.

iconCFD Conference Day

iconCFD Conference, China 2018

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Shanghai, China on 14-15 November 2018.

iconCFD Conference Day

iconCFD Conference, Korea 2018

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Korea on 13 November 2018.

iconCFD Conference Day

iconCFD Conference, Japan 2017

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Yokohama, Japan on 9-10 November 2017.

https://www.idaj.co.jp/support/idaj-cae-solution-conference.html

iconCFD Conference, China 2017

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference Day at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Shanghai, China on 14-15 November 2017.

https://www.idaj.co.jp/support/idaj-cae-solution-conference.html

Visit the ICON and Koenigsegg pavilion at the Hannover Messe

Hannover, Germany 26 April 2016

The Koenigsegg One:1, the world’s first production megacar and the ICON cloud-based simulation iconCFD Platform, used to develop the car within the Fortissimo Case Study, are shown at the Koenigsegg and ICON pavilion at Hannover Messe 2016 (Hall 7, Booth E04).

Koenigsegg and ICON present the world’s first production megacar at Hannover Messe

Windsor, UK and Ängelholm, Sweden 14 April 2016

ICON collaborated in a Case Study with Koenigsegg, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance sports cars based in Sweden. Their brief was to develop the world’s first production megacar (1MW of power output).

ICON France Incorporated

ICON is pleased to announce that it has finalized the incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary in France.
ICON Technology & Process Consulting SAS has been registered in Toulouse on 21st December 2015.

ICON Czech Republic Incorporated

ICON is pleased to announce that it has finalized the incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary in the Czech Republic.
ICON Technology & Process Consulting s.r.o. has been registered in Prague on 2nd December 2015.

iconCFD Conference, China 2015

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Shanghai, China on 23-24 November 2015.

iconCFD Conference, Japan 2015

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Yokohama, Japan on 18th November 2015.

ICON presents the latest developments in iconPlatform

In 2014 ICON presented a novel way to do CFD in the web browser by unveiling its so called iconPlatform.

iconCFD Conference, Japan 2014

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Yokohama, Japan on 14th November 2014.

iconCFD Conference, China 2014

ICON is pleased to announce their iconCFD Conference at the IDAJ CAE Solutions Conference (ICSC) taking place in Shanghai, China in November 2014.

ICON introduces iconPlatform at iconCFD Conferences in Japan and China

ICON is pleased to announce the launch of iconPlatform, a unique approach to simulation through web-browser based “Apps”.

ICON and FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS announce collaboration

Windsor, UK and Potsdam, Germany 19 August 2013

ICON Technology and Process Consulting Ltd. and FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS GmbH have formally strengthened their relationship.

ICON is Invited Key Speaker at the upcoming HPC-Wales "Supercharge 2013"

ICON is an invited key speaker at the upcoming HPC-Wales "Supercharge 2013" event, taking place on May 15-16th  in Swansea, Wales, UK.  The Seminar is aimed at accelerating business potential for engineering companies using cutting edge technologies powered by high performance computing. The event is a collaboration between HPC Wales - a supercomputing provider and Fujitsu.

Koenigsegg Acquires iconCFD Process and Selects ICON as its Exclusive CFD Technical Partner

Windsor, UK and Ängelholm, Sweden - April 2013

Swedish Hypercar developer and manufacturer, Koenigsegg Automotive AB (Koenigsegg), have recently engaged ICON to expand their in-house Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) capabilities. Koenigsegg will drive its product design using a new dedicated super computer together with strategic collaboration with new preferred CFD software and services supplier, ICON.

IDAJ Co., Ltd. Acquires a Controlling Stake in ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd.

Windsor, UK and Yokohama, Japan - 13th March 2013

IDAJ and ICON, two of the world's leading independent service providers and system integrators of Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) processes, are pleased to announce an IDAJ investment to become the majority shareholder in ICON.

ICON Appoint New VP of Sales for North-East and Mid-West Region

Cincinnati, USA and Windsor, UK, February 2013

ICON US, a subsidiary of ICON Technology & Process Consulting Limited is pleased to welcome Gail E. Spangler II as VP of Sales for U.S. North Eastern and Mid-West Region. Gail brings twenty years of commercial experience to the operation by working with a variety of engineering sectors from: CAD, CAE, CFD and ID as well as full product development consulting. Gail has earned a BS degree in Applied Business from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and two sons.

ICON And IDAJ Enter Into A Global Partnership And Strategic Distribution Agreement To Serve The Far East Market

Windsor, UK and Yokohama, Japan, 29th October 2012

ICON and IDAJ, two of the world's leading independent service providers and system integrators of Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) processes, are pleased to announce they have signed a global partnership and strategic distribution agreement.

Preliminary Agenda Announced for Open Source CFD International Conference 2012

ICON, provider of independent technology and process engineering solutions, announced today the preliminary agenda for its upcoming Open Source CFD International Conference, to be held in London, UK on 29th & 30th October 2012.

UK Defence Agency, Dstl acquires ICON FOAMpro CFD capability for Military and Civil Threat Modelling

Windsor, UK, 5 October 2012

UK MOD (Ministry of Defence) scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have taken delivery of ICON FOAMpro, for their built environment simulation activities in civil defence and military threat assessments. Dstl use Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) to model various indoor and outdoor dispersal scenarios in public spaces and to develop protective measures.

ICON and Aircraft Research Association (ARA) enter into a strategic partnership to serve the Global Aerospace Industry

Windsor, Bedford, UK, 27 September 2012

ICON and ARA, two of the UK's leading innovators in the development and support of Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) processes, are pleased to announce that they have signed a strategic partnership. Their joint expertise in CFD technology development, along with ARA's ability to combine wind tunnel testing and the complementary services of model design, component manufacture and aerodynamic analysis, means the partnership can offer high quality, fully validated products to the aerospace industry.

ICON reaction to ESI® acquisition of OpenCFD® Limited and OpenFOAM® Trademark

September 12, 2012, Windsor UK.

ICON see this latest acquisition by ESI of OpenCFD Limited as another reinforcement of the widely accepted view that open source CFD technology and related services, are now an integral and invaluable part of industrial engineering simulation.

iconCFD News Cast - 04/2012 - Adjoint Optimization in iconCFD I/II

iconCFD Optimize 2.1.1 is an extension module to iconCFD. It provides a streamlined process for the solution of optimal design problems applying ICON's latest developments in the field of continuous adjoint optimization.

iconCFD News Cast - 03/2012 - Lagrangian Particle Tracking in icon FOAMpro

In addition to the functionalities for species transport presented in the last iconCFD News Cast, new solvers and models for Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT) are introduced in iconCFD 2.1.1.

iconCFD News Cast - 02/2012 - Species Transport in iconCFD and the iconCFD GUI

iconCFD 2.1.1 introduces full support for new species transport solvers and accompanying models and boundary conditions:

- speciesTransportFoam is a transient species solver using a pre-calculated steady-state flow field.
- buoyantBoussinesqSpeciePimpleFoam computes a transient or pseudo-transient, incompressible, turbulent, buoyancy-driven flow along with a species transport solution.

DATE CHANGES for Open Source CFD International Conference - Monday 29th October and Tuesday 30th October 2012

Due to an error by the Conference Hotel it is now necessary ICON, host of the Open Source CFD International Conference, change the dates of the conference, taking place in London. The new dates are now Monday 29th October and Tuesday 30th October, 2012.

Dacolt and ICON jointly propose training courses in Combustion Modelling using OpenFOAM® technology

ICON, editors of ICON FOAMpro and experts in Open Source CFD technology and Dacolt, editors of Tabkin and experts in combustion modelling with CFD, have collaborated in the preparation and presentation of a three day training course in Combustion Modelling using OpenFOAM® technology.

ICON enters strategic Sales Partnership with Dacolt in the Benelux

ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd. has formed a sales alliance with Dacolt to promote and support its CFD service, ICON FOAMpro in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. ICON FOAMpro provides first class open source-based CFD solver and meshing tools, combined with industrial support embedded in a professional environment.

iconCFD News Cast - 01/2012 - Support for baffles in iconCFD Mesh

In addition to the ability to create face zones in the volume mesh from STL or NASTRAN surfaces, iconCFD Mesh is now capable of splitting up face zones into two-sided internal patches enabling the user to create baffles of the following types:

- Face zones (a one-sided set of internal faces)
- Internal coupled cyclic patches which can be used for internal jump boundary conditions
- Two zero-thickness uncoupled patches, allowing separate boundary conditions on each side

ICON organizes 6th Open Source CFD International Conference in London, UK

The Open Source CFD International Conference 2012 to be held 18th/19th October 2012 in London, UK has issued a Call for Abstracts.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of 300-500 words, including title and author contact information and affiliation.

Open Source CFD International Conference 2011 - Another Great Success!

The 5th Open Source CFD International Conference 2011, organised by ICON, took place in Chantilly, France on the 3rd & 4th November. Delegates found out about the current best practices and state-of-the-art in Open Source CFD and associated technologies, attending two keynotes and choosing from 32 presentations, poster session, exhibition and discussion breaks.

Introductory Programming Training based on OpenFOAM® technology in Maastricht

ICON has scheduled an Introductory Programming Training based on OpenFOAM® technology to be held in Maastricht, Netherlands on 16th - 18th November 2011. The training will be held at the Regus Centre Gegevens in the heart of Maastricht.

SGI to present at Open Source CFD International Conference 2011

ICON, the organiser of the Open Source CFD International Conference is pleased to announce that SGI will present at the 2011 event in Chantilly, France 4-5th November.

Icon Sales Partnerships Required to Operate in US CFD Market

Windsor, September 2011

ICON is looking for experienced Sales Agents/Partners in the US to help continue it's growth and build long term business relationships in the CFD market.

ICON seeks collaboration with partners to promote the ICON FOAMpro service throughout continental USA. Ideal partners would include resellers with CFD market experience and established CFD consultants.

ICON reaction to SGI® acquisition of OpenCFD® and SGI® OpenFOAM® fee-based offering*

August 16, 2011, Windsor UK.

ICON see the acquisition as another sign to reinforce the widely accepted view that open source CFD technology and related services are now an integral and valuable part of industrial engineering simulation.

ICON enters strategic Sales Partnership with Phitec Ingegneria in Italy

Windsor, August 2011

ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd. has formed a sales alliance with Phitec Ingegneria to promote and support its CFD service, ICON FOAMpro in Italy. ICON FOAMpro provides first class open source CFD tools combined with industrial support embedded in a professional environment.

Icon Releases ICON FOAMpro 2.0 - A Comprehensive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) supported process for industry based on open source solver technology

Windsor, United Kingdom, May 26th 2011

A number of sectors within industry have already recognised the benefits to business of harnessing the power of open source CFD solving and understand both the commercial and technical advantages of using computer resources effectively, through a parallelized process, which includes meshing, solving and post-processing.

ICON CFD Seminar Series returns to Germany and Austria with new topic - ICON FOAMpro 2.0

The ICON CFD Seminar Series is designed to address typical questions on Open Source CFD processes and highlight the potential benefits to be gained from using the technology. The seminars are aimed at managers and engineers of CFD and R&D departments who are interested in utilising computer simulations to model fluid flow in a range of applications.

ICON organizes 5th Open Source CFD International Conference in Paris-Chantilly, France.

ICON introduces the ICON CFD Seminar Series - Answering Industry Questions on Open Source CFD

The ICON CFD Seminar Series is designed to address typical questions on Open Source CFD processes and highlight the potential benefits to be gained from using Open Source CFD. The seminars are aimed at Managers and Engineers of CFD and R&D departments.

ICON organizes 4th Open Source CFD International Conference in Munich, Germany

The Open Source CFD International Conference 2010 to be held 4th/5th November 2010 in Munich, Germany has issued a Call for Abstracts.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of 300-500 words, including title and author contact information and affiliation.

New iconCFD.com website goes live

ICON launches its new website iconCFD.com. Alongside with the new look and feel and improved usability the website offers new functionalies like the ICON support system. This easy-to-use central support system enables efficient management of customers' support queries. The system allows users to send ICON support questions, feature requests or bug reports and communicate directly with ICON's support staff.

ICON sponsors this year's stage set at the 8th MIRA International Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference.

ICON proudly announces sponsorship of this year's stage set at the 8th MIRA International Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference.

ICON introduces its new FOAMpro CFD service to the market

Icon is pleased to extend its CFD services offering to industry and organisations with the addition of ICON FOAMpro service. This subscription-based service utilises open source CFD technology, coupled with an ease-of-use GUI and high quality telephone and email support.

For further details please refer to our ICON FOAMpro website section.

ICON holds 3rd Open Source CFD International Conference in Barcelona, Spain

ICON organized the 2009 Open Source CFD International Conference in Barcelona that brought together users, developers, academics and industry managers.

ICON Technology & Process Consulting LLC founded in Cincinnati, USA

Volkswagen Group adopts new Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) Process Developed with ICON

ICON and Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest automaker, are pleased to announce the recent adoption of AeroFOAM, a methodology for performing predictive CFD simulations which is supported and developed by the inependent CFD service provider ICON.

2nd Open Source CFD International Conference in Berlin another great success

ICON organized the 2008 conference which brought together users, developers, academics and industry managers. More than 120 delegates from over 16 countries assembled to hear presentations and exchange views. Topics discussed ranged from multi-phase flow to industrial optimisation. We look forward to another diverse mix of audience and presentations at the 2009 event.

Icon participates at BEinGRID Industry Days

Icon presented and also participated as an invited industry panel speaker.

BEinGRID Industry Days Agenda
Press Release: "BEinGRID Project Launched to Implement and Deploy Grid solutions across the European Industry"

ICON Computer Graphics founded in Barcelona, Spain.

ICON organizes OpenFOAM International Conference in London, UK

2007 saw the introduction of the OpenFOAM International Conference in London by ICON. The event brought together users, developers, academics and industry managers. More than 100 delegates from over 25 countries assembled to hear presentations and exchange views on topics ranging from multi-phase flow to industrial optimisation enabled by the versatile OPENFOAM toolbox.

ICON presents technical paper on Automatic Optimisation of Aerodynamic Designs at 6th MIRA International Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference.

ICON celebrates 10 years consultation to Airbus.

ICON celebrates 15 years of profitable growth.

ICON develops a complete-cabin CFD simulation process for Airbus

A long-standing co-operation with Airbus has seen ICON working on the design and improvement of ventilation systems for a number of different aircraft programmes such as the A380, A380-F, A340/330, A400M, A350XWB

ICON Technology & Process Consulting GmbH founded in Berlin, Germany.

ICON provides modeFRONTIER support to Esteco UK.

First work delivered to customers in United States.

ICON introduces Automatic optimisation techniques into CFD processes.

ICON celebrates 10 years of profitable growth.

ICON establishes permanent base in Hamburg, Germany.

Steficon S.A. founded in Athens, Greece.

ICON expands into non-automotive applications (bio-medical, power generation).

ICON S.A. founded in Athens, Greece.

ICON expands to provide specialist services to the aerospace sector.

Web/Multimedia business unit setup to support the growing demand for services in the engineering and wider business community.

ICON CG Ltd (Private) Limited company founded in UK. Independent spin-off company applying CFD research performed at Imperial College, London.

ICON provides internal combustion engine CFD consultancy services to the automotive industry.