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Pointwise has signed a distributorship agreement with Wikki Brasil, a company founded earlier this year in Rio de Janeiro.

“Wikki Brasil represents our first distribution partner in South America and we look forward to working with them to introduce our computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software to that region of the world,” said John Chawner, Pointwise's president.

“Wikki Brasil is very proud to be the newest Pointwise international distributor. We believe Pointwise's technical features and customization capabilities are in perfect agreement with customers' needs. Brazil has a large variety of industries and we are living through a unique moment in our economy. Many research centers from global companies are being installed in our country and the rate of growth of technology project programs sponsored by government agencies was never seen before,” said Daniel Bruno, Wikki Brasil manager.

“Also recent discoveries of large oil fields give rise to technological challenges where customizable computational fluid dynamics solutions can help engineers and researchers to surpass challenges they have to face in their work.”

Wikki Brasil was founded by Antonio Samel, Gilherme Cunha and Mr. Bruno, managers, and Prof. Paulo Lage and Prof. Luiz Fernando, associate professors and researchers at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Wikki Brasil offers training, consultancy, technical support and custom development for OpenFOAM.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today – mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics. The company's Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM, as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), and Mac, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.

More information about Pointwise is available at www.pointwise.com.