solutions.

For a detailed description of features added to MSC Nastran 2012

Release Guide.
The highlights for this release include:
* MD and MSC Products have been consolidated into one release.
* Improved Performance when using ACMS especially with Parallel Processing
* A New Method for Complex Eigenvalue Analysis which has Greater Accuracy
* Improved performance for the Solution of Nonsymmetric systems encounted
with Exterior Acoustics, Friction and complex Lanczos
* Support of GPU computing
* Structural Interior - Exterior Acoustics can be performed using Weakly
Coupled Procedure which is Faster in SOL 111 and SOL 200
* Complex stress recovery for Shells in SOL 108,109, 111 and 112.
* Improved coupling with ACTRAN for modeling of Trimming material in
SOL 108 and SOL 111
* Panel Participation Factor may be obtained for the Structural Response
and may be utilized in optimization.
* Easier to use Linear Contact Capability in SOL 400
* Improved Time Stepping procedure in SOL 400
* Coupled Thermal-Structural Analysis with SOL 700
* Wood and Ice Model in SOL 700
* Improved Computational Performance for FSI simulations utilizing
Parallel Processing
1 * Improved Splining techniques in Aeroelastic calculations