In the recent ten years, large companies have been deploying PLM solution to improve the productivity by unifying product development and manufacturing. Recently, leading-edge mid-sized companies are also paying attention to PLM, because they are facing with the need of managing increasing 3D CAD data, complexity of product structure data management. However, mid-sized companies do not have enough information system staff to manage information from development to manufacturing. They are reluctant to implement integrated PLM solution which requires high information-related investment for system construction, implementation, training and maintenance. Under such circumstances, it is required that mid-market PLM enables the fast implementation with limited staff, step-by-step implementation of effective solution based on best practices and highly effective investment.

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ANSYS product family providing by ANSYS Inc is consisted of about 10 kinds of product families such as "ANSYS" the main product, CFX, and ICEM CFD. In addition, ANSYS Inc is developing these products with enhancing collaboration with each product. Simulation by Finite Element Method has been used for productions that peoples design. But this technology has been used in Bio & Medical Engineering and Research area also since the past. ANSYS has been commonly used in the Medical Engineering because of it's easy of use. ANSYS is used for stress calculation of Orthodontics or Mandible and recently used for stress and fluid calculation of Blood vessels. In this paper, I introduce ANSYS product families and Bio & Medical applications.

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Flows in a nanochannel was considered and were categorized into two regions according to the channnel size. The first is the channel size is still large enogh compared with a molecular size. In this case, rarefied gas dynamics can be applicable. The other is the channel size becomes much smaller and in the same order of the molecular size. In this case, rarefied gas dynamics becomes invalid and characteristics of flow and chemical reaction seems to be very different from hose of the first one. Furthermore, examples of nanochannel fabrication methods, using porous alumina and mesoporous silica were introduced.

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