I am a Comet user, my main work is to compute free surface waves around ships. Do you know what could be a good VOF alternative to Comet in the market? (considering accuracy and price) thanks

Not happy with Comet? I think this type of application is exactly what Comet is initially build for. Maybe think about Phoenix as an alternative. Fluent, CFX and StarCD (bought Comet-technologie a couple of years ago) have also VOF. Price? Accuracy?

Flow3d (www.flow3d.com)

thank you

STAR-CD 4 has the comet model (HRIC differencing etc) as does STAR-CCM+

Both Fluent and CFX11 work well for this.

Plenty of choices!

shipflow is number one:

www.rina.org.uk/rfiles/navalarchitect/editorial_april03.pdf http://www.flowtech.se/ www.sspa.se/software/cfd.html http://www.ec-nantes.fr/sirehna/fant...hievements.htm

splash number two close behind

http://www.panix.com/~brosen/ http://www.reichel-pugh.com/racing/pyewacket.php http://www.tecplot.com/showcase/stud...merica_one.htm

SPLASH is used by the Naval Academy in Annapolis, in Maryland.

then you can also have {N3S, Estet-Astrid, Flux Expert} from www.simulog.fr

ANSWAVE from http://www.sirehna.fr/ who also uses SHIPFLOW

Please contact Numeca for FINE/Marine. This is a new product. You may not have any information on their web site yet.