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Austria

Technical University Graz, Computational Biomechanics: Blood flow in large arteries, cardiovascular transport processes, blood flow effects on reactive-diffusive systems, multiphase flow. Information about research areas, list of people and publications.
University of Vienna, Institute of Mathematics, ACORE: Software development (numerics and visualization), compressible flows, applications in astrophysics and other areas.

Belgium

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Turbomachinery, Environmental and Applied Fluid dynamics and a CFD-group. Information about educational programs, history, objectives, research. Also has a phone-book online.

Canada

Queen's University, Centre for Advanced Gas Combustion Technology: Research, development and advanced training in gas combustion. Introduction to the people, research areas and some publications..
University of Alberta - Computational Fluid Dynamics: Computer simulation work of multiphase flow systems (fluidized beds, bubble columns, cyclone separators), stirred tank studies and transient flow phenomena. The web site gives a description of the research and contact information.
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, CFD Group: Develops CFD methods and models with application to aerodynamic flows. The web site gives a a brief description of the group's research and a list of recent publications.

Denmark

Aalborg University Esbjerg, Group for Chemical Fluid Flow Processes (CHEFF): The Chemical Fluid Flow Processes research group (CHEFF) works on Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD) analysis of the flow processes which are relevant for the chemical process industry and the oil-and gas industry. This includes development of methods, models and computer software as well as experimental verification (EFD) using laser based techniques. Information about people and research areas.
Aalborg University, Inst. of Energy Technology, Fluid Mechanics And Combustion Technology Section: Working with turbulent swirling flows, gas-particle flows, pptimization of flow geometries and combustion modeling. The web site gives information about people and research areas, animations and downloads.
Risoe National Laboratory: CFD applied to Wind Turbines. Description of the EllipSus2D/3D code developed at Risoe and DTU and its applications to general wind turbine design. The web site gives a general description of the work done by the fluids team and graphical representation of the results.
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Biotechnology: A small group in the department is involved in Hygienic Design of food processing equipment, by the aid of CFD. Also functional design of food processing eqiupment using CFD is performed.
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Fluid Dynamics: Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Finland

Center for Scientific Computing (CSC), CFD: Information about personnel.
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Aerodynamics: Research and teaching of aerodynamics (numerical and experimental) and flight mechanics. Links to pages describing briefly the main areas of interest of the laboratory. A list of personnel and lately published reports is also available.
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics: Develops the FINFLO flow simulation software. The main interests of the laboratory are turbulence modeling, CFD for rotating machinery and modeling of free surfaces. Project summary, information about personnel, image and movie gallery.
Helsinki University of Technology, Ship Laboratory: The group of Ship Hydrodynamics develops the FINFLO RANS solver for the naval applications. Homepage provides information about personnel and the research projects are briefly described.

France

Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Division Modelisation Numerique (CFD Group): Working with incompressible turbulent steady/unsteady flows computations, Navier-Stokes equations, complex geometries, turbulence models and validation. The site gives information about personnel, research, publications, applications and more. A nice site!
ESTACA: Automotive and Aeronautic engineering school in Paris. In charge of many research projects in CFD and other areas. Information about the students, school, areas of studies.

Germany

Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery: Flows in turbomachinery, multiphase flows, reacting flows, flows in cavities, also experimental fluid mechanics. Informations about research and teaching, list of staff, publication index.
HSVA, Hamburg Ship Model Basin: HSVA is working on several CFD topics having a marine background. These include free surface computations for ships and internal flows, e.g. in tanks, viscous (RANS) flow around shiphulls at constant forward speed and oblique flow, propeller applications using potential as well as viscous methods and several more. The web site presents their services, facilities and staff.
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Hydro Gang: Astrophysical fluid dynamics. Information about people and research projects. Many sections are still under construction.
RWTH Aachen, Shock Wave Laboratory: Shock waves, turbulent flame propagation, detonations, high temperature gas dynamics. Information about people, research projects facilities and more. Lots of information and a search interface. Also has publications online !
Technical University Chemnitz, Research Group on Multiphase Flows: Numerical investigation of disperse multiphase flows (e.g. gas-particle, gas-droplet flows) using 3-dimensional Lagrangian approach (PSI-Cell model). Development of parallel solution algorithms for calculation of 3-d gas-particle flows on MIMD parallel computers. Information about people, research work, some applications, full publication index, some papers available online (compressed postscript).
Technical University of Berlin, Hermann-Föttinger-Institut für Strömungsmechanik: Turbulence Modeling, Stability, Large-Eddy-Simulation, Swirling Flows, Parallel Computing, Grid Generation,... Local Information, Links to WWW-Server, Special-Services
Technical University of Berlin, ISM, Ocean Engineering: Transient viscous computation (RANSE/VOF) of wave structure interactions, numerical optimization of offshore structures, numerical wave tanks The web site includes text information, research-papers, links, pictures and videos.
Technical University of Darmstadt, Mech. Eng., Aerodynamics and Measurement Techniques: Works with CFD.
TU Berlin, ISM, Ship Hydromechanics: CFD Analysis of propellers and ships. Geometric Modelling, Grid Generation, solving RANSE equations. Design of an "Segeldynamometer". The site gives an overview of research fields, organisation, online documents etc.
TU Darmstadt, Institute for Energy and Powerplant Technology: Working with LES/RANS modeling of turbulent combuston, multiphase flows and also modeling of CVD process. The site includes information about personnel, research, list of publications and more.
University of Applied Sciences Kiel, CFD Laboratory: CFD for bio-medical devices (incubators, flowsensors), windturbines and turbomachinery. The site gives gereral information about staff, equipment and current projects.
University of Duisburg, Combustion and Gas Dynamics, CFD Group: Multiphase Flows, Detonation, Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Structured and Unstructured Grids, Fundamental Methods in CFD, Ship Flow, Lattice Gas Methods. Various links describing the CFD related work and projects.
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM): A large group working in the fields of CFD viz. fluid-structure interaction, large eddy simulation (LES), direct numerical simulation (DNS), multiphase flow modeling, turbulent reactive flow simulations, flow through porous media, cellular automata, lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) and high performance computing (HPC). Web page includes info about research areas, projects, technical events, short courses, contacts etc.
University of Halle, Department of Engineering Science: Modelling and numerical calculation of multiphase flows based on the Euler-Lagrange and two-fluid approach. Applicability of 2d and 3d codes to gas-solid flows, sprays and bubbly flows; coupling with electrostatic field. Relevant models, turbulent dispersion, wall collision, inter-particle collision including coalescence. The web-site gives information on running projects, reports and test cases for download.
University of Heidelberg, Applied Mathematics, FEAST Group: Develops a FEM-solver for incompressible flow called FEATFLOW. Also publishes the 'Virtual Album of Fluid Motion' which is a very extensive collection of CFD visualizations. The homepage contains the complete sources and documentation and all data from the 'Virtual Album' (about 4 GByte!)
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computer Applications, Numerical Methods for HPC: Working mainly with numerical methods for partial differential equations. Typical applications are flow simulations including two-phase flows, porous media, multigrid, incompressible and compressible flows, non-newtonian flows and more. Information about research and personnel. Has some full-text preprints online!
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery: Working with incompressible turbulent steady/unsteady flows computations, RANS, complex geometries, turbulence models, validation, high performance computing, LES, rotor/stator interactions, cavitation.
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Nuclear Technology and Energy Systems IKE: Working with multiphase flow, turbulence modeling, turbulence research, bubbly flows, phase change phenomena, two-phase modeling, DNS, LES, CFX, boiling, condensation, cavitation and reactor flows. The whole site is in German!
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Structural Mechanics: Research on fluid structure interaction (besides their traditional research field which is computational structural mechanics). Finite Elements for instationary, incompressible Navier-Stokes.
University of Technology, Berlin, CFD-Group: Workiong with CFD, turbulence modelling, fluid-structure interaction, computational aero acoustics, teaching and industrial projects. The web site gives information on research and teaching, staff, links and special services.

Greece

National Technical University of Athens, Mechanical Engineering, Fluids Section: Information about research, personnel and laboratories.

Hong Kong

University of Hong Kong, Mech. Eng., Prof. Chwang's Fluid Mechanics Research Group: Research in water wave mechanics, with emphasis on porous media, ship waves, solitons and field measurements. List of group members, publications, facilities and projects.

India

IIT Bombay, Department of Aerospace Engineering, CFD Lab: Develops IITZeus, a versatile multi-block grid generator.
Indian Institute of Science, Dept. of Aerospace Eng., Centre of Excellence for Aerospace CFD: Research in areas like algorithm development, fluid-structure interaction, and solution adaptive grids. They have developed Kinetic Schemes such as Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting (KFVS) and Least Squares Kinetic Upwind Method (LSKUM). The web-site provides information about the research activities, people, publications, events and some CFD related links.

Ireland

University College Dublin, Department of Mechanical Engineering: Subsonic/transonic flow prediction with control; convective heat transfer cooling of electrical/electronic equipment The web site includes details of ongoing research, research facility, publications.

Italy

Politecnico di Milano, Internal Combustion Engine Group: Developes a 1D code named GASDYN. It is 1D thermo-fluid dynamic model for the simulation of the whole engine system.
University of Trieste, Naval Architecture, Ocean & Environmental Eng. - Applied Physics: Buoyant flows (natural convection in enclosures and mixed convection in channels); cooling of electronic equipment; heat transfer augmentation; CFD for incompressible, time-dependent flows. Description of the aims of the research, with still images and short animations. Links to relevant sites.
University of Udine, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: Environmental and Process Fluid Dynamics. Turbulent transport in the environment and in industrial facilities. Turbulence Control by EHD forces. The site provides information on research and teaching with online documents.

Japan

Tohoku University , Institute of Fluid Science: Extreme fluid phenomena, functional fluids, control systems of flow and heat transfer. Information about research and a scientific gallery.
University of Tokyo, Mechanical Engineering, Turbulence and Heat Transfer Lab: Turbulence modeling, Structures and Transport Mechanisms, Control of Turbulence Phenomena. Information about people and current research. Online bibliography.

Korea

Seoul National University, Dept of Mech. Eng., Center for Turbulence and Flow Control Research: Turbulence controls for drag reduction, noise reduction, heat-transfer enhancement, and mixing enhancement. The web site gives information about research activity, publications and animation of fluid flows.

Netherlands

Delft University of Technology, Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics Group: Fundamental and applied research in aerodynamics of aircraft and spacecraft. Theoretical (analytic and numerical) and experimental methods for flow analysis, simulation and prediction. Overview of research, education, facilities and people.
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics, Section Heat Transfer: Working with turbulent combustion, natural and forced convection and turbulence modeling. Information about people, research and courses.
Delft University of Technology, Kramers Laboratorium voor Fysische Technologie: Computational and experimental studies of flow, heat and mass transfer in chemical process equipment. The web-site give information about people, research, education and facilities.
Eindhoven University of Technology, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: Turbulence, Vortex Dynamics, Gas Dynamics, Aeroacoustics, Combustion. Information about research, publications and people.
J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics: Turbulence, multiphase flow, free surface flow, CFD modeling, compressible flow. General information and introductions to the research areas.
University of Groningen, Dept. of Mathematics, Computational Mechanics Group: Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow, free-surface. liquid dynamics, (industrial) applications of CFD Movie gallery of various simulations, background information on methods used, list of publications.

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Simon Bolivar University (USB), Center for Fluid Mechanics and Applications (CEMFA): Main areas of research and consulting in CFD are: Multiphase Flow (e.g., Static Mixers, Gas-Liquid Compact Separators), River Hydraulics (Free Surface Flows approaching a Dam, Solid Transport in Rivers), CHT (e.g.,Viscous Flow around an Electric Motor), Transitional Flow (e.g., T-S waves generation and propagation within an Airfoil Cascade), Compressible Flow (e.g., Flow through a Gas-Lift Valve), etc. The web site includes information about recent publications and projects.

Norway

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering: CFD in hydraulic engineering: sediment transport, intakes, flood waves, water quality in lakes etc. The site contains examples with color graphics, downloadable CFD modeling freeware, downloadable class notes for CFD in hydraulic engineering, links to other software and examples of CFD in hydraulic engineering.

Russia

IBRAE RAS, Lab of Computational Heat and Hydrodynamics: A small department working in several CFD related areas like CAD, numerics and grid generation: orthogonal and/or TFI multiblock grids, cartesian hiearchical local-refinement grids, CAD interfacing and tetra meshing.
Russian Academy of Science, Special Research Bureau, Computational Fluid Mechanics & Ocean. Lab: Hydroacoustic, hydrophysics and hydrometeorology experiments, computational fluid mechanics, tidal and sea current simulation, storm seakeeping of ship, design sea researches equipment. The web site has abstracts of marine researches & design facilities.

South Africa

University of Pretoria, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Research in Atmospheric Flow Modelling, Industrial CFD processes, Vehicle Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer, Aerodynamic Application and Flow Optimisation. List of people, publications and examples of projects.

South Korea

Seoul Nat'l Univ., Mech. Eng., Turbomachinery Lab: CFD and experimental research for turbomachinery applications. Focusing on centrifugal and axial pumps, compressors, fans, diffusers, etc. Validating and assessing CFD techniques by comparing with experiments. The web site gives information about research topics, profiles of professor and members and contact information.
Yeungnam Univ., Computer Applied Fluid Laboratory: [CFD] - INS, SIMPLE, PISO, FEM, [Solid Modeler] - IGES, NURBS, [Grid Generation] - Algebraic, Analytic [Mesh Generation] - Delaunay, Advancing Front. Free download of simulation software for educational purposes (GENGRID V1.1, FEMFLOW V1.0, VISFLOW V1.0, etc.). Only precompiled binaries, no source. The site gives a short presentation of the lab, activites and members.

Spain

SEECAT - South European Center for Advanced Transport Phenomena: A research group within the Escola Tecnica Superior D'Enginyeria Quimica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. The main areas of research are: Turbulent flows, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer and Combustion Modeling. General Information about SEECAT.
Technical University of Catalonia, Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy Technology: Working on CFD applied to the design and optimization of thermal systems. The web site gives a brief overview of the research, facilities, personnel and publications.

Sweden

Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Thermo and Fluid Dynamics: Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, Gas-dynamics and Turbomachinery, Multiphase Flow and Combustion Modeling. Information about research and personnel.
Luleå University of Technology, Division of Fluid Mechanics: Research in hydrodynamic stability, flows in paper making and direct strip casting of steel. Information about people, research and courses. A bit thin.

Switzerland

EPFL, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Thermodynamics and Turbomachinery: Working with flutter, losses, turbine heat transfer and parallel computing. Information about personnel, research, facilities and publications. Some full papers are available directly online.
EPFL, Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulic Machines and Fluid Mechanics: The Fluid Mechanics Lab (LMF) works with CFD. Information about the organization, people and some publications.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering: Different groups working with fluid dynamics, energy systems, combustions, turbomachinery and more. More information can be found at each group's homepage.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Energy Systems Laboratory: Working with air flows in buildings, combustion and energy and environmental issues. Information about research and peronnel.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Institute of Fluid Dynamics: Working with industrial safety and environmental protection problems and turbulent flows. CFD using both RANS, LES and DNS. Most pages are still under construction (24/5 -96), but some information about their research is available.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Turbomachinery Laboratory: Gives a short summary of their research and personnel.
ETH Zurich, Air&Climate Group: A small research group working with CFD applications in and around buildings. Subjects of recent research are: Spreading of smoke in case of fire, industrial ventilation applications (reinforced exhaust systems), sedimentation of particles. The web site gives general information about the work of the group, papers and abstracts and a link-page.

U.K.

Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Department, Loughborough University: Works with CFD and aerodynamics focused on automotive and turbomachinery applications. The web site gives and overview of the department, research and staff.
City University, Civil Engineering, CFD Group: Development and application of turbulence models and solution procedures to problems in heat and fluid flow. Has animations, images and papers online.
Cranfield University, College of Aeronautics, Centre for CFD: Research into CFD algorithm development, Newton-like methods, convergence acceleration, transonic shock control, hypersonic heating, shock boundary layer interaction. turbulence modelling, supersonic vortical flows etc List of people involved in CFD, publications, current research and specialist short course available.
Cranfield University, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Modeling: Combustion and flame modeling for turbomachinery applications. Information about people, research projects, courses and links to other related sites.
Imperial College, CFD Research Group, Thermofluids, Mech Eng.: This is the home page for Prof.Gosman's CFD research group. They work on all areas of CFD, including turbulence modelling (RAS, LES) and combustion, multiphase and free surface flow. Contains information about the research, and about FOAM, a general-purpose CFD code written in C++ using OOP techniques. Types of info provided : Technical and scientific info about research in the group. Papers/preprints. Details about students and postdocs.
Imperial College, Department of Aeronautics: Research programs in Aircraft Aerodynamics, Hypersonic Aerodynamics,Bluff Body Aerodynamics, Road Vehicle Aerodynamics, Boundary Layers, Atmospheric Dispersion, Wind Turbine Aerodynamics, Marine Technology, CFD, Aerospace Vehicle Design, Control and Optimization Theory. Information about people, research programs and courses.
Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Flow Analysis: Research in aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, shock waves, explosion hazards, fluid structure interactions and Groundwater. Has a lot of information online - people, research areas, bibliographies, animations and more.
Oxford University, Institute for Computational Fluid Dynamic: Working with CFD algorithms. Just a brief introduction to the institute.
The University of Greenwich, Fire Safety Engineering Group: Working with simulation of fire related phenomena including radiation modelling, combustion modelling, fire-sprinkler interaction, knowledge based techniques for CFD, and multi-phase flow. Products are: SMARTFIRE: An interactive fire field modelling CFD environment. EXODUS: An evacuation modelling system. Site gives a complete overview of research interests, learning opportunities, product development news and short courses.
UMIST Mechanical Engineering CFD Group: The UMIST CFD Group is engaged in a broad range of fundamental and applied research projects, with the main theme being turbulence modeling and simulation in complex flows. The home page contains information about this research and its relevance to Fluids Engineering, about the group and about the environment in which the research progresses. The page also contains research briefs and a list of selected publications covering 1995-8.
University of Bradford, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering: Has a small fluid dynamics and heat transfer group working mainly with two-phase flows and multi-element airfoils. Introduction to their research and information about personnel and selected publications.
University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Water Resources Mangagement Group: CFD modelling in environmental water engineering with special emphasis on water quality in lakes. Examples of research on CFD modelling of circulation and algae in lakes and reservoirs.
University of Glasgow, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, CFD Group: Research into numerical methods for the Navier-Stokes equations (particularly implicit methods), parallel computing on clusters for CFD, aerodynamic applications in the areas of shock waves, unsteady flows, aeroelasticity, delta wings, surge waves and helicopters, and education for CFD. The web site gives summaries of research areas, downloadable reports, pictures of the group, information for students and a computer assisted learning course in CFD
University of Greenwich, Centre for Numerical Modeling and Process Analysis: Specialising in fire safety, parallel processing, algorithms and others. Information about people and research areas.
University of Hertfordshire, School of Engineering, CFD Group: Working in the areas of wall laws and boundary conditions; ventilation of the human lung; high pressure gas leak jets; and the natural ventilation of modules on offshore gas and oil rigs. Information & background of all the group members; short summaries of the projects and work taking place; what codes and hardware are being used.
University of Leeds, CFD Centre: This is a multidisciplinary centre for research, comprising the Departments of Applied Mathematical Studies, Chemical Engineering, Earth Sciences, Fuel and Energy, Mechanical Engineering and the Schools of Chemistry and Computer Studies.
University of Nottingham, Division of Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Divisional research covers a wide range of studies including Coastal Engineering, Wind Engineering, River Hydraulics and Urban Drainage, using a variety of numerical models. The web site provides divisional information, staff lists, research project information, links to important sites of interest, available research positions etc.
University of Southampton, Computational Engineering and Design Centre: Development of parallel CFD codes within a centre dedicated to parallel computation of a wide range of engineering disciplines. Of particular interest is an unstructured, incompressible solver written in C++.
University of Southampton , Inter-Departmental CFD Group: Pointers to CFD-related research at the University of Southampton. Includes research in the Departments of Aeronautics, Ship Science, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Maths, Electronics and Computer Science, Geography and Oceanography.
University of Surrey, Mech. Eng., Fluid Dynamics Group: Experiments on environmental flows including stratified and separated flows, large-eddy simulation of spatially developing flows, transition and turbomachinery; flow measurement, discrete vortex methods. Information about research areas, people and facilities.

U.S.A.

Brown University, Center for Fluid Mechanics: Information about research projects, people and more. A very nice site !
Caltech, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories: Bluff body flows; Vortex methods; Combustion; Shock waves; Other projects in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, and jet propulsion. Information on faculty, students and seminars at GALCIT. Short summaries for all current research projects, more extensive information on some.
Center for Turbulence Research: A research consortium for fundamental study of turbulent flows. It is jointly operated by Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center. Information about research projects and associated scientists and organizations. You can also find a lot of full-text publicatios available directly online - nice!
Clark Atlanta University, Computation and Modeling Laboratory: High performace computing for free-surface flows, large-scale parallel finite element simulations. The web-site includes a research summary, project descriptions , list of members, publications and sponsors.
Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: A small CFD research group working with heat transfer in heat exchangers, multiphase flow, and direct numerical simulations of buoyancy driven flows. The HEATX CFD code for 3-D simulation of heat exchangers and the WING program for 2-D panel simulation of multi-element airfoil sections are available. The HEATX code includes sub-models for turbulence, leakage, fouling, baffles, shell-side and tube-side flows, and a lagrangian particle method for more general problems in reactors that might involve drop evaporation, condensation, and chemical reactions. Their objectives are basic research with an applied slant. The web page shows example results, an outline of the methodologies used, and more contacts.
Computational Thermo-Fluids Group: Working with numerical simulation of complex transport phenomena ranging from solidification and materials processing to membrane and sail aerodynamics; from Stokes flow, (creeping flow) to high Mach number turbulent reacting flows. Information about the people involved in the various research activities.
Florida State University, Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, CFD Group: Working with unsteady flows with large scale separation, computational combustion, acoustics and unsteady biofluid mechanics. Information about research programs and people.
George Mason University, Institute for Computational Science and Informatics, CFD Group: Latest trends in grid generation, reactive flows, CFD/CSD coupled codes. Group Description, current projects, publications.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Group: Computatational Fluid Dynamics, with emphasis on hydraulic and environmental flows.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Fluid Dynamics Research Center: Information about facilities.
Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research: Turbulent and Shear Flows, Vortex Dynamics, Ship Hydrodynamics, CFD, Hydraulics. Information about current research programs and the senior research staff.
Iowa State University, Computational Fluid Dynamics Center: Research personnel, courses, images, information and CFD links at Iowa State University.
Kettering University, Computational Plasma Dynamics Laboratory: Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element methods, Electric Propulsion, External and Internal Flow, Solar Physics, Turbulence, Vehicle deicing defogging. The homepage provides the information about the people in the group and their computational research activities.
Michigan State University, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Automotive research, physical modeling, large eddy simulation, multi-phase flow, material processing, geometry modeling and grid generation, computational aeroacoustics, parallel computing,high-order methods. The web-site presents research projects and capabilities.
Mississippi State University, Eng. Research Center for Computational Field Simulation: Focuses primarily on CFS with a heavy emphasis in CFD. Grid generation, visualization,algorithms, and more! Information about research, laboratories, education, publications and more. Not only CFD things.
MIT, Computational Aerospace Sciences Laboratory: A small research laboratory in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Working with parallel computers, visualization, internal and external flows, fluid-structure interaction and optimization. Information about personnel, software and some publications.
Ohio State University, Fluids Group: Information about faculty and research areas.
Ohio Supercomputer Center, CFD: Not really a home page, just a description of what they are doing.
Penn State University, Aerospace Engineering: Information about education, research programs, facilities and more.
Penn State University, Mechanical Engineering: A huge site with information about personnel, facililties and research.
Princeton University, MAE, CFD Lab for Engineering Analysis and Design (LEAD): Numerical analysis of complex fluid flows using high performance computers. Headed by Prof. Jameson and Prof. Martinelli ! Information about people, research and some publications. Still not very complete.
Princeton University, MAE, Gas Dynamics Lab: Research in high Re pipe flows, Taylor-Couette flows, combustion and mixing, compressible turbulence and transition in supersonic flows. Information about people, research and facilities. Looks good.
Princeton University, MAE - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Has several research programs related to CFD and fluid flow. Information about events, people, education and research.
Princeton University, MAE, Moody Hydrodynamics Lab: Not much information yet (18/10 1995).
Rice University, Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling (T*AFSM): T*AFSM is an inter-institutional group of researchers focusing on development of advanced computational methods and tools for flow simulation and modeling. The web site gives research highlights for "Targeted Challenges" and many other complex, real-world applications, all displayed with graphics and brief description of advanced computational methods used. Internship programs based on challenging problems and use of advanced computational methods and hardware.
Rutgers University, Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab: Most sections still under construction (14/6 1996).
Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering: A very large department. Both the Applied Mechanics Division and the Thermosciences Division works with CFD related things. Information about research, personnel, publications, courses and more.
Texas A&M University, Computational Mechanics Laboratory: Research primarily in the areas of mechanics of fluids and solids and thermodynamics. Work carried out is in the area of computational modeling of viscoelastic fluid flow for polymer processing, finite elasticity and plasticity to study large deformation materials processing applications like superplasticity and defects in semiconductor materials. The Lab is supervised by Prof. J.N Reddy, who holds the Oscar S Wyatt Jr. chair in Mechanical Engineering. Summary of the various areas of research carried on in the Lab.
Texas Tech University, Mechanical Engineering: Automobile aerodynamics is the main area of research in this laboratory. Acoustics effect of fluid fluid interaction is also being studied. Graduate students pages, Abstracts of Publications and some Pictures are avilable.
University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering: Spectral methods, geophysical flows, incompressible flow (projection methods), adaptive mesh refinement, combustion flows, atmospheric flows. General information about the department, education and research. Links to several different subgroups working with CFD related things.
University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Cartesian grid methods, projection methods, front tracking for compressible flames, Chimera methods. Information about research areas and personnel.
University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics Lab: Experiments related to fluid mechanics. Information about staff, students, research and more. Still under construction (Nov 1, 1995).
University of California, Davis, CFD Center: Research in heat transfer, combustion, turbulent large eddy simulation, grid generation, solution adaptive gridding and more. Founded in 1992. Information about people and courses.
University of California Irvine, Mech. & Aerosp., Multiphase Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics: Research related to droplet and spray vaporization and combustion, liquid-metal droplet solidification in materials processing, aerosol condensation and liquid atomization. Information about research and people.
University of California, Los Angeles, MANE Department, CFD Lab: Has three groups working with turbulence, hypersonic and computational aerodynamics and combustion. Information about research, personnel and more. Some groups have full-text publications available online!
University of California, San Diego, CFD Research Group: DNS of Turbulent Compressible Flows. Current projects includes: Combustion, Sound Generation, Stratified Flows and Compressibility Effects. The site gives references, simulation results and numerical methods.
University of Colorado at Denver, Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM): Working with CFD applications. Areas of research include porous media flow, iterative methods, finite element methods, parallell computations and adaptivity. The web site gives a brief summary of their research and personnel. You can find further information in the personal home pages.
University of Florida, Computational Thermo-Fluids Group: Research includes: Shock Induced Combustion, Gas-Turbine Combustor Flow Modeling, and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Membrane Wing in Viscous Flows. This site contains links to Professors, Post Docs., and Graduate Students working within this group along with a description of their research.
University of Houston, Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence: Links to the Aerodynamics and Turbulence Laboratory and the Vortex Technology Center , where you can find information about research, peronnel, facilities and more
University of Illinois, Continuous Casting Consortium: The Consortium develops comprehensive mathematical models of the continuous casting of steel slabs. The site give information about the Consortium's objectives, members, projects and publications.
University of Illinois, Large Scale Computational Fluid Science Group: CFD in both geophysical and engineering applications. Basic mechanisms at work in transitional and turbulent flows. Information about people, research areas and publications.
University of Illinois, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics: Information about research, personnel, courses and more.
University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Advanced CFD Group: Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer and combustion; numerical analysis and dynamical systems. Emphasis on developing and applying methods for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent flows, especially those involving additional physics. The web site gives an overview of personnel and resources, descriptions of current research, publications & lecture notes. A very nice web-site with many papers available in pdf format!
University of Maryland, Aerospace Engineering, Rotorcraft CFD and Acoustics Group: CFD applied to helicopter rotors. Acoustics effects. Information about personell and research projects.
University of Maryland, Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel: Introduction to the facilities, personnel and more - nice !
University of Maryland, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Turbulence and LES simulations. Information about personnel, facilities and research activities.
University of Maryland, Mechanical Engineering, Turbulence Research Lab: Information about personnel and facilities. A bit thin.
University of Michigan, W.M. Keck CFD Laboratory: Algorithm development, convergence acceleration, extended hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, non-dissipative methods, solution-adaptive grids, vortex breakdown. Information about research activities, people, facilities, courses and more. Many nice images !
University of Minnesota, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics: CFD projects related to DNS of the motion of particles in liquids and finite element simulation of flow problems.
University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer: Research in convective heat and mass transfer, transitional and turbulent flows, thermal biomedicine, two-phase flows, flow control and more. Information about current research, people and labs.
University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering: Research in aerospace sciences, thermal & fluid sciences. Information about people, research projects facilities and more. Lots of well structured information.
University of Southern California, Aerospace Engineering, Fluid Mechanics: Traditionally strong in the study of fluid dynamics and turbulence, has more recently expanded in the areas of CFD and partially ionized nonequilibrium gas flows. The Center for Modeling and Simulation are working mainly with CFD. Information about research, applications and personnel.
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, CFD Laboratory: In short, they work with: Computational Mechanics, Numerical Heat Transfer, Ventillation (CFD), Free Surface Hydrodynamics (CFD), Turbulence Modelling, Finite Element Methods. The web site gives an overview of the department, research, personnel and more. You can find many full-text publication available directly online. They also offer graduate courses over the internet. This is a very nice web site!
University of Texas, Advanced Computational Engineering Lab: A small group working with 3D viscous flow simulations using unstructured grids. Has information about people and publications available online !
University of Texas at Arlington, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CFD Lab: A small department working with LES and hybrid RANS/LES methods. They also develop numercial schemes and study blade-vortex information. The web-site gives further information about current research project, personnel and includes a list of publications (some available directly online).
University of Texas, Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab: Research topics related to the numerical approximation of transport processes. Summaries of research projects (including supercomputing, parallel iterative solver development, and semiconductor research), bios of lab personnel, and a range of ftp offerings.
University of Utah, CFD Lab: Working with turbulent mixing and the linear eddy model. Information about research and personnel.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Engine Research Center: A U.S. Army Center of Excellence devoted to fundamental research on spark ignition and diesel engines. The ERC's projects involve fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, sprays, emissions and health effects, lubrication, and powertrain systems. Particular emphasis has been placed on the application of optical diagnostic methods to engines, and computational fluid modeling of engine processes.
Utah State University, Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., CFD Lab: Applied CFD; wing-tip vortex flows, vortex breakdown, mixed convection, HVAC applications. The site gives information about personnel, facilities, interests and results.
Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics Group: Turbomachinery flows, 3-D CFD, Turbulence modelling, Supersonic inlets, Jet mixing. Pictures and descriptions of teaching and research projects. See also the Mechanical Engineering Homepage.
West Virginia University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CFD Lab: Working a lot with LES, dynamic turbulence combustion and multi-phase flows. Thje web-site gives information about personnel, projects and more.

Company

Australia

BJJS & Associates P/L: Developer of PipeNet, a fast 1D CFD package. They work with 1D solvers for both steady state and transient cases, including combustion and a library of BS orifice plates and components. The web site give fuller descritions and worked examples - downloadable disks include full online help.
GAB Consulting Pty Ltd: Development and promotion of the direct sumulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method for the simulation of gas flows at the molecular level. The web site has downloadable freeware and one commercial (with free demonstration version) visual interactive program for the simulation of rarefied gas flows. Modern personal computers allow simulations of subsonic to hypersonic flows well into the continuum regime. The programs are particularly useful in a teaching context.
Proen Design Australia: An Adelaide, South Australia based product design and engineering firm, with offices in Adelaide, Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur. Working with the CFX TASCflow code and provide a consultancy service to industry. The site gives information on their range of services, including a gallery on Computer Aided Engineering and CFD.

Austria

AVL List GmbH: AVL develops and sells a wide range of CFD tools for many application areas, with special emphasis on powertrain engineering. Their products include Fire - a CFD code for internal flows in combustion engines, SWIFT - a general purpose CFD solver and FAME - an automatic mesh generator. The web site gives general information about their products and services.

Belgium

Numeca International s.a.: NUMECA develops and sells CFD software. Their products include grid generators (IGG™ and IGG™/Autogrid), 3DNS flow solvers (EURANUS), visualisation software (CFView™) and integrated CFD packages (FINE™/Turbo for turbomachinery and internal flows and FINE™/Aero for external flows). Numeca also sells design and optimisation tools including FINE™/Blade2blade, FINE™/Throughflow and FINE™/Design. The web site gives basic information about the company and its products.
Polyflow S.A.: Develops and sells CFD software for industrial flows of complex fluids. The polyflow code is a finitie element CFD code that can handle non-Newtonian fluids, with a special emphasis on rheologically complex liquids in industrial processes. The web page gives detailed information about the company and its products and services, including an overview of their R&D work.
TESIS Company: Developing CFD code "FlowVision" and engineering software. Consulting.

Canada

Maya Heat Transfer Technologies, Ltd.: Maya develops heat transfer and fluid flow simulation software for electronics cooling applications. Their CFD code is called ESC (Electronic System Cooling). The web page gives further information about the company and its products.
Newmerical Technologies International: Develops and re-sells several CFD related codes for different application areas (aerodynamics, aero-elasticity, aero-acoustics, aero-icing, mesh optimization). Also provides CFD related engineering services in areas like aeronautics, automotive, building, naval, and power and process industries. The web-site gives details about products and services, FAQs and downloads.
Process Simulations Ltd. (PSL ): Engineering services, including CFD, for process industry - pulp and paper, boilers, lime kilns, petrochemical applications. The web-page describes the company and its services. You can also find a few nice brochures and galleries.
Simulent Inc.: Simulent is an engineering software and consulting company providing engineering solutions for fluid and thermal systems. They specialize in flows with large surface deformation, surface merging and surface breaking. Typical application areas are sprays and multiphase flows, materials processing, combustion and pollution assessments, thermal plasma technologies, ink jet printing, and environmental technologies. The web page gives further information about the company and its products and services.
TradeTech, Inc.: Markets 3D MacroSoft ©, a CFD code written by Dr. Yuri D. Shevelev.

Denmark

CF3D - CFD Design & Development: Provides consultancy services (i.e. analysis and design) for flow component developers and producers. Key areas are: Rotating machinery - Pumps & Compressors, Valves, nozzles, External body flow. Services are also provided in the area of: Customised Software development, FEM analysis and CAD work. The Web site provides: Company information, CFD case studies.
Danish Maritime Institute, Industrial Fluid Dynamics: Consultancy for the power generation industry, process industry and flow component developers. Experimental investigations and CFD simulations. Examples illustrating their services in the industrial fluid dynamics group as well as other company activities.
Dantec Dynamics A/S: Dantec Dynamics is most well known for their LDA and PIV systems (laser flow measurement devices). However, they also market a CFD code named ORCA. ORCA is developed together with Acusim and ICEM CFD. It is an integrated package specialized on mixing simulations. The basic solver is FEM based (read Tom Hughes, Centric). The homepage gives a brief overview of the ORCA code and of cource a lot of information about Dantec's flow-measurement products.

Dubai

CFD Consultancy Group Dubai: CFD consultancy offered in the Middle East and Gulf Regions. General codes for solving computational fluid dynamics problems provided. The web site gives an introduction to the company, products for sale, contact methods and examples of previous work.

Finland

CFD-Finland, Oy.: A consulting company specialized in CFD. They have experience from turbomachinery, cyclones, heat-exchangers, paper-machinery, control valves and other similar industrial applications. CFD-Finland also sells their own CFD code called NOVA and they are a local representative for Fieldview (Intelligent Light) and Gridgen (Pointwise). The site gives an overview of the company and its products and services.
Finflo Ltd.: Finflo Ltd. offers flow simulations and related CFD software (FINFLO) for a wide range of technical applications. Finflo Ltd. also provides research, development and consulting services including grid generation and software development. The company operates in cooperation with the nearby research institutes. Finflo Ltd. is located in Otaniemi campus area about 10 kilometers from the city of Helsinki. The web-site gives a description of the company, contact information and a few CFD applications.
Process Flow td Oy: A small CFD engineering company in Finland. They are 12 employees who mainly do consultancy projects. Process Flow is also the distributor of Fluent in Finland and Baltic countries. Process Flow has done projects in process industry, turbomachinery, heat transfer problems and micro fluidistics. They are now expanding to electronics cooling, combustion and enviromental simulations. Process Flow has two offices in Finland. Their main office is in Turku and the other office is in Tampere. The web site gives contact information, a short description of the company and some links.

France

ESI Group: Consulting and software development in computational applied mechanics. Specializing in Predictive Virtual Prototype Testing. PAM-FLOW, ESI Group's CFD package, is an unstructured Finite Element code for turbomachinery, vehicles and coupled fluid-structure interaction. The web site gives a company profile, contact information, product information.
ICEM CFD Engineering France: Develops and markets grid generation systems. ICEM CFD Engineering France is the French office of ICEM CFD Engineering. Their local offices (Paris and Toulouse) provide support, consulting and training for ICEM CFD software. The web site gives information about offices and products.
Radioss: RADIOSS CFD is a compressible transient Navier Stokes equation solver with fluid/structure coupling capabilities. The web site gives a short presentation of the software package including description, some validation and application examples dedicated to acoustics, aeroacoustics and fluid structure interaction.
ReNuDa Engineering Computation: ReNuDa is an independent engineering consultancy firm for modeling industrial applications of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion using CFD. The website gives an overview of the benefits of working with ReNuDa, the CFD services it provides and a description of the expertise that exists within the company.
Simulog: CFD engineering services and products: N3S, Estet-Astrid

Germany

Beaver Discovery: Develops tools for 2D and 3D structured or unstructured grid generation, unsteady computations on moving 3D grids, aeroelastic phenomena and CAD modeling. Their main product is called GridCAD.
CFD Consultants GmbH: CFD Consultants provide consultancy services using Gridgen, CFX, FLOW-3D, Fluent and FIELDVIEW and are a distributor of FLOW-3D and FIELDVIEW. The web site gives an overview of the company and its services. It is in German!
CFDnetwork Engineering: CFD Consultancy - CAD Modeling & Design, Complex Grid Generation, Flow Simulation, Software Development, Training.
CFD & Structural Engineering GmbH: Develops and markets grid generation systems. CFD & Structural Engineering GmbH is the German office of ICEM CFD Engineering. The web site gives information about offices and products.
Dr. Heck Consulting and Engineering: Provides worldwide finite element analysis (FEA) for fluid flow (CFD), structures, and heat transfer, specializing in fluid structure interactions (FSI). Their English website shows a large number of examples (especially FSI) and contact information.
High Performance Computing and Grid Generation: CFD Software and parallelization of large codes. Grid generation software GridPro, ParNSS parallel Navier-Stokes solver for compressible flows, JavaPar parallel java Navier-Stokes solver
ICCM, Institute of Computational Continumm Mechanics, GmbH: ICCM GmbH is a private research institute. They develop and sell the Comet package, which is a multi-purpose software for both solid mechanics and fluid dynamics. The web site gives further information about the institute and the Comet code. You might also find CFD related courses here.
INVENT Computing GmbH: INVENT develops a wide range of CFD related products in cooperation with different universities in Germany, like BEST (Lattice Boltzmann theory), FASTEST (Navier-Stokes solver) and LEARN (a program for education and training in CFD). They also develop CFD codes for industrial customers. INVENT is mainly a consultant company, though, and offers CFD services for a variety of industrial customers. The web-site gives basic informations about the company and its products and services.
Logica pdv GmbH, Industrial Consulting & Services: Logica pdv offers engineering services to the industry and research institutions based on CAE and CFD tools. Logica pdv also acts as an agent for commercial CFD codes. The home page includes a description of the CFD activities at Logica pdv GmbH. The CFD applications are part of interdisciplinary activities and are presented as part of the solutions offered for different industries. A link to Logica pdv GmbH and Logica plc is also available.
P+Z Engineering GmbH: Offers consultancy services to the automotive industry, air- and space industry, chemical industry, and consumer products industry. P+Z works in the fields of mechanical design, project management, prototyping and simulation (FEM, CFD). P+Z develops INKA/TILL which is a code for calculating temperatures of air and solids in enclosures. The main application is vehicle compartments.
Schuck - Engineering Office for Fluid Mechanics: A medium sized CFD consultat company. Has a long experience with most important CFD tools. The homepage gives information about the used CFD tools, the consulting services and references.
VirCinity IT-Consulting GmbH: VirCinity offers COVISE, a visualisation environment mainly for analysis of results of numerical simulations. It is a distributed environment that allows the usage of Virtual Reality technology and supports collaborative working. The integration of simulations into the environment makes it possible to directly interact with and visualise the results of on-going simulations. The web site basically gives an overview of the functionality of COVISE.

Greece

ATREAS Consulting - Engineering and IT Services: ATREAS Consulting is a company specializing in CFD methods applied on power plant components such as burners, boilers, electrostatic precipitators and turbomachines. Has worked with design, retrofit and optimization of compressor blades, boilers and other power plant units. The web-sites gives a company profile, information on CFD methods, test-cases, representative results and contact info.
Enervac-Flutec Ltd: Enervac-Flutec is geared towards providing technical services to industry and the engineering community. The homepage presents the range of software and services provided by the company, as well as a selection of representative case studies.
SimTec Software and Services Ltd: SimTec is active in the development and distribution of technical software. The company provides advanced CFD solutions and is the agent for Fluent Inc in Southeastern Europe. The homepage provides information on the products and services offered by the company.

Ireland

Engineering Solutions International Limited (ESIL): Engineering services companying specialising in fluid mechanics for industry and R&D. Experience in space applications, process modelling and EU projects. The web site presents case studies of our previous contracts, including aerospace, automotive, biomedical, household goods, process engineering, refrigeration/HVAC and surface engineering.
Performance Fluid Dynamics: A company working with CFD modelling of mixing and reaction processes. Models and software for impellers, reactions, heat transfer and multi phase flow. The site contains an overview of products and services

Israel

Flow Sim Ltd: FLOW-SIM develops a CFD package for PC under the brand name FLUIDEX. Their technology is based on a variational principle and searches for the minimum of the flow's effective energy instead of solving the relevant PDE. The web site gives a company profile, a description of the technology, patent information, software demo download etc.
J-ROM Ltd.: Distributes Fluent and FlowMaster in Israel. CFD consultancy services. The web-site gives details of the CFD software distributed, the engineering consultancy offered and a company profile.

Italy

META rte Italy: Engineering services, including CFD, for process industry. Key areas are: textile machinery, motorcycles, heat exchange, ceramic industries, external body flow. Also provide: customised software, virtual prototyping, images recognition and elaboration, FEM, CAD 3D. The web site gives contact information, a short description of the company, and some examples.

Netherlands

BuNova Development: BuNova Development is a consultancy firm that assists their customers with the development and design of products and processes in which controlling chemistry, heat and mass transfer is of prime importance. For their advices BuNova uses CFD techniques for which the expertise, hardware and software licenses are in house.
FlowMotion: FlowMotion is an engineering and consultancy company specialised in fluid dynamics for industrial applications.
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN), CFD development group: Hydrodynamic consultancy for the maritime industry; advice, model tests and flow computations for design of ship hull forms and propellers. Development and application of CFD codes to predict the flow around ship hulls and wave patterns. The web site describes the ongoing research at MARIN, focussing on CFD; links to descriptions of the CFD codes RAPID and PARNASSOS; publications, some downloadable (in 'Publications -- Resistance & Propulsion').
NRG: NRG offers research and consultancy in a wide range of fluid flow problems, which include: supersonic flow, heat transport (convection, conduction, and radiation), fluid-structure interaction, multi-phase flow, combustion and membrane separation. The website contains various examples of CFD-projects performed by NRG.
Ovink Scientific Computing: Consultancy in the field of CFD and FEA. Keywords: multi-phase flow, turbulent combustion, explosion modelling, sloshing. On the homepage you can also see some examples of simulations performed with Multiflow2D, their in house developed simulation tool for multi-phase flow.
Stirling Consulting Group: An engineering firm specialized in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and mechanics. Experience in thermal control / climate control. The web-site gives an overview of the company, expertises, and case studies.
Stork Product Engineering: Stork Product Engineering is specialised in product development in the field of fluid dynamics for several industrial applications. Stork Product Engineering has expertise in supersonic gas behaviour, nucleation and droplet growth, vortex generation, two phase separation, instrumentation and manufacturing development. Stork Product Engineering also supplies a CFD software program called COMFLOW. A free demonstration version is available.
TNO Institute of Applied Physics: Working with a wide range of applications, with special empasize on process technology - combustion, furnaces and drying processes. The web-site gives general information about the Process Physics department of TNO-TPD. Details on the CFD tools available and links to other departments and institutes can also be found.

Norway

CFD norway as: CFD norway performs consultant and research services on a wide range of fluid flow problems, including astro and aeronautics, hydrodynamics and turbulence modelling. In-house codes are used for both simulations and grid generation. The web-site contains presentation of the company and staff with contanct information. Information on products and some recent projects is also provided.
Complex Flow Design AS: Analysis and numerical simulations for separation processes in the petroleum industry, hydraulics engineering (rock filled dams, hydroelectric intakes etc.). The web site gives general information about the products and services.
VECTOR: VECTOR offers consulting services, research and development within CFD. VECTOR develops the code WIND-SIM for calculation of local wind fields and dispersion of air pollution.

Russia

CAE services group: CFD and FEA engineering analysis services. Can help you with CFD meshing and analysis. The web site gives a company profile and aallery of problems solved.

South Africa

Softflo, Flo++ CFD Code: Softflo develops and supports the Flo++ CFD code for Windows 95/98 and NT. Research topics center around unstructured, skew, moving, sliding, arbitrary coupling meshes; k-e turbulence model, transonic compressible and incompressible flows, conjugate heat transfer, free surface and dispersed multiphase flows; steady/unsteady flows, chemical species; a wide range of boundary conditions; porosity models; cell removal/addition. The home page supplies information on Softflo company, support, and contacting information. Listings of Flo++ capabilities and pricing are available. The software is medium priced.

Spain

Compass Ingeniería y sistemas, SA: A consulting services and software development company specialized in the engineering design. Develops and sells fluid-dynamic and heat-transfer analysis software (Tdyn) The web-site provides company and product commercial information, online documentation, online help page, downloads of products and manuals etc.
SIMULOGICA: CFD engineering services and software distribution in Spain (PowerFLOW and ICEM CFD). SIMULOGICA provides training, support and consultacy services of the softwares they distribute. There are offices in Madrid and Barcelona. The web site provides a presentation of the company, services and products.
ST Mecanica Aplicada: CFD engineering services. Provides consultancy services of systems involving any kind of fluids. The web site describes the mission of the company, offered services, tools used and relevant published papers related to their work.

Sweden

SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute: SMHI works with wind climate in the built environment and in complex terrain, dispersion patterns of air and water pollution and design wind loads for structural safety.
Sweco Industriteknik AB: Consulting CFD-engineers working with experiences on hydropower plants, for exampel on intakes, turbines, draft tubes and spillways. Working also with flow and thermal analysis in industrial technology processes, medical engineering and on electronic cooling.

Switzerland

AFC Airflow Consulting Switzerland: Provides CFD engineering services for building applications - comfort, fire and smoke propagation, air quality, energy consumption and ventilation. They use software from AEA Technologies (CFX 5, CFX 4, Tascflow) and CEI (Ensight). The web-page presents a few sample projects. More detailed information can be ordered on a CD-ROM.
Airflow Consulting: A small consulting company specialized in ventilation flows. The web-page gives examples of CFD studies in several HVAC applications.

Thailand

adTherm Technology - The Home of Virtual Thermal Engineering: Consulting related to automotive heat-transfer. CFD & FEA tools used. The web site gives and overview of services offered.

U.K.

Advanced Design Technology: Advanced Design Technology, develops and sells TurboDesign, a 3D inverse design tool turbomachinery blades. Advanced Design Technology is a joint venture between University College London and The Ebara Research Co. of Japan. ADT also offers design and consultancy services.
CD adapco Group London Office: Develops and sells STAR-CD, a general purpose commercial CFD code. CD adapco is one of the largest CFD code vendors. Their homepage summarizes STAR-CD's capabilities including meshing, parallel processing and modelling features. It also has a list of national agents.
CFD Recruitment: A small U.K based company specialising in CFD recruitment. Has a list of open positions available online.
CHAM, Concentration, Heat and Momentum Ltd.: Develops and sells the CFD code PHOENICS, one of the first general purpose CFD codes. CHAM also provides CFD consultancy services in a wide range of application areas. The web site gives further information about the company and its products, including a lot of details concerning multi-fluid turbulence modeling, simultaneous solid-stress analysis, fine-grid-embedding etc.
CINAR Ltd.: Energy and Environment Consultancy for Power Generation Industry. Company Profile and Projects Undertaken.
Flowcode, Ltd.: Flowcode is developing a CFD package for the analysis of hydro/aerodynamics. The code is primarily aimed at the marine industry. Please note that the code is still under development and is not yet commercially available. The site includes details about Flowcode, a summary of the applications and technology used, links to relevant sites and a feedback form to register for more information.
Icon Computer Graphics Ltd.: Icon is a consultancy company providing CFD services to the industrial community. Icon also specialises in multimedia and the development of presentation tools for CFD data. An introduction to the company's services is provided on the website.
Moldflow: Develops CAE software for simulating plastic injection molding. Description of services provided. Access to user group info
Nabla Ltd.: Nabla Ltd. develops, supports, maintains and sells the C++ computational continuum mechanics package FOAM. This product is used to solve a wide range of complex physics problems including multiphase and free-surface flows, LES of combustion, food processing. Consultancy services are available and include the writing of FOAM applications tailored to a specific problem. The Nabla homepage contains details of the current FOAM release including a full online manual, examples of its uses, availablility and details of consultancy services.
Ricardo Consulting Engineers Ltd.: Develops and sells VECTIS, a CFD code with applications focused on automotive and powertrain related problems. VECTIS has an automatic mesh generation with mesh motion for moving geometries. Ricardo also offers consultancy services related to the automotive industry.
Virtual Science: Scientific and engineering consultancy, R & D and software development. Experience covers CFD, CEM in aerospace, defence, automotive, process and more. UK distributor for CFDRC products - CFD-ACE+, CFD-FASTRAN flow solvers - also additional physics modules. Applications include coupled fluid/stucture, chemistry/surface chemistry, EM/plasmas, MEMS, semiconductor fab and free surfaces. Website provides outline of services and products with links to partner sites.
Visual Dynamics: Visual Dynamics develops and sells (worldwide) Griddle, a multi-block structured mesh generator. The web site provides further information about their product and contact details for Visual Dynamics and Griddle.

U.S.A.

ACRi -- Analytic & Computational Research, Inc.: Develops and sells a range of different CFD codes. Their main products are the codes ANSWER, CFDStudio, PORFLOW, RADM, acrPLOT, and TIDAL. The web site gives further information about the company and its products. They also have manuals for their codes available directly online!
AC Technology (Advanced CAE Technology): Develops software for polymer processing (injection molding, blow-molding, etc.). The product (C-MOLD) includes modules for simulating filling, post-filling, mold cooling, residual stress, and shrinkage and warpage of plastic parts during injection molding. Company history, product information, current development news and links.
ACUSIM Software, Inc.: A small company developing CFD solvers. Their main product, AcuSolve, is a finite element code for incompressible flows. The web sites gives an introduction to the company and its products. You can also find a few examples of typical applications in electronics cooling.
Adaptive Research, a Division of Simunet Corporation: A company specializing in CFD software and engineering services. They develop and sell STORM/CFD2000, an integrated package including a block-structured mesh generator, and an implicit finite-volume solver. The company's website provides detailed information about its products and services.
AeroLogic, Personal Simulation Works: Aircraft streamline-body design and analysis packages for the PC. Online information about their products.
AeroSoft, Inc.: Develops CFD software for academic, industrial, and governmental aerospace institutions. Their current code, GASP, can handle 3D time-dependent RANS. The source code is included ! Located near Virginia Tech, USA. Has information about their products online.
Airflow Sciences Corporation: Consulting company working for industrial customers in the area of fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer. Doing both field testing, lab testing and numerical simulations. The numerical simulation techniques include 2-D and 3-D CFD methods, 1-D network simulations, semi-empirical simulations and special purpose models. All numerical models have been developed and are maintained by ASC. The homepage provides an overview of ASC's capabilities. Simple introductions are provided to the numerical tools and test capabilities, and several case studies are presented.
Amtec Engineering, Inc.: Develops and sells INCA, a 3D multiblock, upwind, implicit, Navier-Stokes code. Amtec are also the makers of Tecplot. Information about products and support.
Analytical Methods, Inc.: Research and development in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics for government and industry. AMI has developed a series of CFD packages and also provides consultation services. Information about the company and its products. Lots of cool graphics!
Analytical Services & Materials, Inc.: Development and support of 3D Navier-Stokes codes. Their codes include; PAB3D, CFL3D and TLNS3D, developed and supported under several NASA contracts. The web site gives detailed information about the PAB3D code. Further information about the company can be found at their main web site.
Ansys, Inc.: Develops general FEA software. Has a CFD module called Flotran. Has a lot of information online.
ANSYS Inc., CFX: ANSYS is a large company specialised in CAE software and services. They are one of the largest commercial CFD code vendors. Their CFD code CFX is used in a wide range of application areas. ANSYS also owns ICEM CFD - one of the leading mesh-generator vendors in the CFD market. The site gives information about their CFD activities, including applications, training dates, conferences, contact information, consulting etc.
Blue Ridge Numerics: Develops, sells, and supports a line of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) products for fluid flow and heat transfer analysis. Product and Contact info. Demo Coming soon.
BOSS International: BOSS International, a civil engineering software development company, markets and supports the SMS (Surfacewater Modeling System) 2D modeling software. SMS can model water surface elevation, flow velocity, contaminant transport and dispersion, sediment transport and deposition, and nearshore wind-wave growth for two-dimensional horizontal flow problems.
CAES, Computer Aided Engineering Solutions: A consulting firm specializing in CFD services for the building industry.
Cape Simulations: Provides consulting services in thermo-fluids, solid mechanics, electro-magnetics, vibrations and chemical reactions. Experience from using packages like ABAQUS, ANSYS, FIDAP, CFX, etc. to solve engineering and R&D problems in materials processing, semiconductor equipment, manufacturing, rotating equipment, crystal growth etc. Further information about services and experience can be found at the web site.
CASCADE Technologies Inc.: The company is an outgrowth of the Center for Turbulence Research. It provides consulting and software development in turbulence modeling for CFD. The main product is the V2F model sold as an add-on for Fluent and Star-CD software. Consulting activities are mainly related to unsteady RANS simulations and applications of LES technique. The web site gives further information about Cascade's products: V2F Turbulence Model and LES packages.
Catalpa Research, Inc.: Develops and sells TIGER CFD - a specialized turbomachinery CFD code that allows rapid grid generation. The home page provides detailed information on their turbomachinery CFD expertise, including the commercial software and consulting services.
CD adapco Group New York Office: CD adapco is a large consultant company that offers CFD services for a variety of industrial customers. CD adapco's New York office also sells STAR-CD in North America and provides support and training. The site gives a description of the company and their services.
Centric Engineering Systems, Inc.: Markets general Simulation-Based-Design software under the name Spectrum. Founded by Thomas J.R. Hughes.
CFD Associates (CFDA): CFDA specializes in the CFD modeling of mixing processes: multiphase flow, free-surface effects and species mixture fractions. CFDA provides insustry with cost effective solutions to problems considered too small or too applied by universities.Our experts assure quick turnaround. The CFDA homepage gives a brief description of the Principals and details some of our prior CFD modeling accomplishments.
CFD Research Corporation: Software, engineering services, and R & D for multiphysics simulations. Complete integrated solution packages of CFD-ACE+ and CFD-FASTRAN. The web-site gives information on company, softwar and capabilities for industrial applications.
COMSOL: FEMLAB, produced by COMSOL, is an integrated environment for modeling CFD, fluid dynamics, momentum, heat and mass transport coupled to chemical reactions. FEMLAB’s key features include: simultaneous solving of an arbitrary number of coupled nonlinear PDEs and solvers for linear and nonlinear stationary and time-dependent problems in 1D, 2D, and 3D. FEMLAB may also be run with Matlab if so desired. The web-site gives product information, seminar/conference schedules, training courses, support knowledge base, press & media links, user stories, model showroom, and various request forms.
Concepts NREC: The Agile Engineering Design System® developed at Concepts NREC is a turbomachinery design system that encompasses the complete engineering process. Integrated elements of the system include preliminary design, detail design and analysis tools, including rapid CFD, FEA and rotor dynamics.
Convergent Thinking, LLC: Convergent Thinking specializes in the area of engine modeling with emphasis on the formulation and implementation of spray and combustion models for CFD codes. The homepage gives an overview of the types of services that Convergent Thinking can provide in the field of CFD modeling. Principle areas of research and consulting are also described.
Creare Inc.: R&D and services in fluid flow and heat/mass transfer, including analysis, CFD, testing, and hardware development. Also markets Motran two-phase network code. Web site provides information on company services and experience as well as description and ordering information for their Motran software.
Cullimore & Ring Technologies, Inc.: Develops and sells SINA/FLUINT and FloCAD - CAD-based fluid flow and thermal analysis software, including optimization, model correlation/calibration, and statistical design for electronics cooling and other applications. The web-site gives further information about the company and its products. You can also download evaluation copies of their sofware packages.
Daat Research Corp.: Specialising in CFD software for electronics cooling applications. Their flagship product, Coolit, is available for Windows 95, 98 and NT.
DCW Industries: Research, scientific texts, software and short courses related to CFD, turbulence modeling and grid generation. Founded by David C. Wilcox. Information about the company and its products.
Dynaflow, Inc.: A small consulting firm working with free surface dynamics, cavitation, jet flows, boundary element methods, fluid / structure interaction, and educational software products like 2DynaFS, 3DynaFS, 3DynaPL, 2DFlow. The web site describes their activities and research in the above areas, shows useful applications, and provides lists of references plus downloadable versions of the recent publications.
ECooling Inc: Small consulting firm specializing in practical application of CFD tools for the electronics industry. They use Flotherm to simulate IC packages, circuit boards, fans, complete systems, and more. Homepage includes background, client list, and examples with pictures.
Eloret Corporation: A small company offering research and engineering contracts and consulting services to clients in government, industry, and academia. They are working with many CFD related applications. They are also responsible for running the Thermosciences Institute at NASA Ames. The web site gives a summary about the company.
Engineering Sciences, Inc. (ESI): Develops general purpose CFD codes such as FDNS - Finite Difference Navier Stokes solver in general coordinates. Information about experience, key personnel, example cases and news.
Exa Corporation: Develops and sells PowerFLOW, a CFD package based on a lattice gas technolgy called Digital Physics. Company information, latest press, white papers, articles and more.
Field Precision: Field Precision markets the KB Code Suite, a complete package for 1D and 2D simulations of shock hydrodynamics and detonations. The homepage includes a complete catalog for KB including technical details and prices.
Flomerics, Inc.: Flomerics is one of the leading vendors in software for thermal analysis of electronic systems. Their main product is called Flotherm. They also have a specialized ventilation code named Flovent. The web site gives further information about the company and its products. Flomerics also has an online journal about Electronics Cooling.
Flometrics Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics R&D: An engineering firm specializing in solving problems in fluid and thermo dynamics. Working with CFD, experimental and theoretical fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. The page gives a presentation of the company and its services. It also include some comparisons of computed 3-d separated flow with experiments in a water tunnel.
Flow Science, Inc.: CFD software and services. Sells FLOW-3D, a fluid dynamics and heat transfer program. Speciality is modeling free-surface flows. Information about the company, the code, sample applications, partial bibliography, agents and news.
Flow Simulation Services, Inc.: A small CFD consulting firm specializing in casting and industrial processes, especially free surface and two-phase flows. The web sites gives an introduction to the company and the services they offer.
Fluent, Inc.: Fluent is the largest general purpose CFD code vendor. They develop and sell a wide range of CFD codes, like Fluent (a general purpose finite volume code), Fidap (a FEM code developed by FDI which was bought by Fluent), Polyflow (polymer processing ), Nekton (a spectral element code for thin-film simulations etc.), IcePak (electronics cooling) and MixSim (mixing vessels). They also sell their own mesh-generation package named Gambit. Fluent offers consultancy services and have local offices in many countries. The web site gives further information about products, typical applications and more.
Fluid Dynamics Solutions, Inc.: A consulting company providing engineering services in the thermo-fluid field using analytical and/or experimental methods. Services include CFD, cleanroom flow modeling, HVAC CFD simulation, fan designs, air handling unit designs, contamination control, thermal analysis, HVAC designs, fan filter unit designs, minienvironment designs and cleanroom designs. The web-site includes basic information about the company. Illustrations of typical projects the company can perform are also included.
Hanley Innovations: A small company specialising in aerodynamics and fluid dynamics software development for education and industry. They sell several airfoil analysis and design packages and also offers on-site courses. You can find books and educational material for sale here. The web site gives a background of the company and its products, including some free demos for download.
Huffman Technolgy Company: A small company that offers a variety of products and services to the cavitation research community. Keywords: cavitation, sonoluminescence, computational fluid dynamics, sonofusion, sonochemistry, vortex engineering.
Innovative Research, Inc.: Develops and markets COMPACT and MacroFlow, as well as a number of custom codes for the analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, combustion, and other related processes. The company was founded by Suhas Patankar in 1987. Product and consulting service information, downloadable demos, and general company information.
Intelligent Light: Intelligent Light develops and sells CFD post processing software. Their main product is the Fieldview package. The web site gives further information about the company and its products.
Krispin Technologies, Inc. (KTI): KTI performs scientific and engineering R&D with emphasis on CFD. KTI is the developer of the VorCat technology, a vortex-method based methodology for simulation of high-Reynolds number turbulent flows. KTI spun off VorCat, Inc. (www.vorcat.com) in order to commercialize VorCat. Web page information includes projects, products, personnel, and links to its affiliate, VorCat, Inc.
Metacomp Technologies, Inc.: A company working with R&D, software development and consulting in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Their main product is CFD++, a CFD software package. The web page gives further information about the company, staff, products and services.
Milltech Engineering Co.: Milltech Engineering is a consulting company that uses CFD and DEM to solve processing problems. It is best known for its simulation software Millsoft, SAG mill optimization, hydrocyclone modeling, air cleaner design, and ultrafine grinding applications. The website gives information about the company, people, clients, services, and more.
NGB Technologies, Inc.: NGB Technologies is a technical services provider and engineering software supplier offering simulation capabilities to companies involved in flow, mixing and combustion process engineering. The web site presents several case studies involving NOx reduction technologies, background information on LIM (LES) simulations, and general information about the company.
Nielsen Engineering & Research: Consulting, software, and research in CFD. Specialties include aerodynamics of space launch vehicles, maneuvering aircraft, store separation, missile aerodynamics, information technologies applied to CFD, and CFD algorithm development.
Numerical Applications, Inc.: Develops and markets GOTHIC, a general purpose thermal-hydraulics program for modeling multiphase flow in complex geometries. The web site gives further information about the company and its products and services
Numeritec Corporation: Numeritec develops and markets the CFD code CONCERT which offers geometry modeling, structured and unstructured grid generation, flow solution with a wide range of physical models, and data visualization. This web site contains an introduction to the company, CFD, solution results and animation of flow simulaion using CONCERT.
PADT: PADT is a provider of mechanical engineering services including design, analysis and prototyping. An important component of these services is PADT's CFD simulation capability. The web-site gives an extensive presentation of the company, inluding services offered.
Phaedrus Group, LLC: A private institute specialising in scientific software for research and education. They sell a fluid dynamics sofware library called FDLIB. The web site gives further information about the company the the FDLIB library.
Pointwise, Inc.: Develops Gridgen, a grid generator primarily used in CFD. Gridgen can handle both Quad/Hex and Tri/Tet meshing. The web site gives further information about the company, products, news and more.
Program Development Company: Develops and markets GridPro - a multi-block structured grid generator for CFD and structural mechanics. The web site gives further information about the company and its products and services.
Reaction Engineering International: Simulation of reacting flows. The sites give statement of work and examples of previous work.
Sage Physics & Engineering: A new company doing CFD consulting for industrial clients. Previously the CFD Department of SSESCO. Experiences in a wide variety of engineering applications including engine development, turbomachinery, heat transfer, biomedical, environmental, auto racing, and HVAC among others. Also specializes in technology transfer of CFD to Fortune 500 companies. The web-site gives a company profile, including previous CFD experience, services offered, examples, and contact information.
South Bay Simulations, Inc., Free-Surface Flow Division: Develops and licences SPLASH - a nonlinear free-surface flow simulation software. Offers engineering services specializing in hull and appendage design for Grand Prix race yachts. Emphasis is on problems where the waves at the air/water interface is of paramount importance. Sample results and contact information.
SSESCO; CFD Consulting: SSESCO provides CFD consulting in many applications areas. This is a small company. The web site lists experiences and examples, philosophy and links to related sites.
Stress Engineering Services, Inc., SES Process Technology Group: SES is an engineering consulting company specializing in design by analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer equipment and systems. SES uses commercial CFD programs such as Fluent and FLOW-3D and develops custom software for special applications. The web site gives examples of CFD analysis. Comparisons of CFD results with experimental results are provided.
Structure, Inc.: Provides engineering research and analysis services to the aerospace, marine, and defense industries. CFD tools used include ANSYS, WIND, PMARC, AVL, VLM, and APAS.
Synaps, Inc.: Provides design optimization/automation software and services to government, industry, and academia. Their main product, Pointer, is an optimization/automation framework that transforms analysis software into a tool for automated design. Synaps also specializes in performing aero/hydrodynamic shape optimization. The web-site provides information on several aerodynamic and CFD related projects with which Synaps has been involved.
Technalysis, Inc.: Developers of PASSAGE family of products (Duct, Wheel, Sysflow, PowerCAST, Compression and FreezeDry). Provides consulting services in fluid flow and heat transfer to automotive, equipment, foundry and pharmaceutical industries. The web site includes sample projects, movies and technical papers
Tetra Research Corporation: Engineering and scientific computing consulting services. Unstructured flow solvers for compressible and incompressible flows. Developing Tetrex, a unified flow solver written in Fortran 90 for both structured and unstructured grids of arbitrary topology. The web site gives a brief summary of current research interests and a description of the Tetrex code and the underlying technology, including some sample results.
ViGYAN, Inc.: A small company providing aerospace research and development services. Their main client is NASA Langley. ViGYAN sells ViGPLOT, a scientific visalization package and VGRID, an unstructured grid generator. The web page gives further information about the company.
VorCat, Inc.: Develops and markets VorCat, a CFD code based on a novel vortex method. Web site includes list of publications, detailed description of R&D projects including results and animations, staff, and company news.
XYZ Scientific Applications, Inc.: Develops and sells TrueGrid®, a general purpose, structured, multi-block hexahedral mesh generator. The web-site gives information about products, training, availability and consulting.
ZONA Technology, Inc.: A small company specialized in aeroelasticity. Their code, ZAERO, is used mainly for aircraft structural/fluid interaction and uses an unstaedy aerodynamic panel (BEM) method with CFD inside in the transonic module. The web site gives further information about the company and its products.

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CSIRO, Advanced Fluid Dynamics Laboratories (AFDL): Granular flow, multiphase flows, classification and thickening flows in the minerals extraction and processing engineering. Also groups active in turbulence modelling, large eddy simulation, modelling of swirling flow and vortex break-down. Overview of the group. Case studies of industrial processes modeled by AFDL. Staff homepages (under development).
CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, CFD Group: The CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences CFD Group specialises in Finite Element Methods, Discrete Element Methods, and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for the numerical simulation of industrial continuum and granular flows. The Fastflo finite element code developed by the group is marketed worldwide. The web site gives a description of the research activities, example applications, publications, Fastflo code, and staff.
CSIRO Minerals, Advanced Thermo-Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: CFD simulation of processes and equipment in the minerals processing, metals production, power generation and process engineering industries; Development of models in these areas. Site contains information on application areas and contact details.

Canada

CERCA - Center for Research on Computation and its Applications, Canada: Turbulence modeling, adaptive gridding, linear system solvers and several generic and applied research programs. Has very nice short descriptions of the research programs and a lot of well structured information !
The CFD Society of Canada: A framework for communication and collaboration between CFD researchers, developers and practitioners, in industry, government and academia. The web site is available both in French and English.

Denmark

DANSIS, Danish Society for Industrial Fluid Dynamics: An organization which provides a network between companies in the area of industrial fluid dynamics. The web site gives a summary of their activities, but be warned, the whole site is in Danish!

Finland

Finnish National CFD Technology Programme 1995-1999: Basic CFD research. Information about people, projects and participating organizations.

France

CERFACS, CFD Team: Working with turbulence, combustion, unsteady flows and coupled phenomena. Information about the group and what they are doing.

Germany

DLR - German Aerospace Research Establishment
DLR Institute of Design Aerodynamics: Addresses design issues of applied aerodynamics and aeroacoustics in aeronautics and astronautics. The focus of the institute is the development of numerical methods and the formulation and testing of new concepts, which lead to higher perfomance less noisy aircraft. Description of the Insitute and its five branches as well as current projects and research areas.
DLR, Institute of Fluid Mechanics: Research on numerical simulation of flows and experimental flow investigations in wind-tunnels. Information about research activities and other topics.
DMV - Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, German Scientific Computing: Links to many other interesting sites in Germany

Italy

CIRA - Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali: A national Italian aerospace research center. Information about fields of research, research projects, facilities and documents.
CRS4 Computational Fluid Dynamics Area: Research, training and industrial consulting activity in the field of CFD and in particular: development of innovative numerical schemes for compressible and incompressible flows; free surface flow dynamics; mesh generation and adaption. The web site gives a description of the area activities and jobs/stages opportunities at CRS4.

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National Aerospace Laboratory: National Aerospace engineering research institution of Japan under the Science and Technology Agency. CFD is one of the leading research areas at NAL, with applications within aircraft aerodynamics, space lauch vehicle aerodynamics, aeroengines and turbulence research. NAL operates the Numerical Wind Tunnel(NWT), a powerful parallel vector computer for CFD. Information about research, HYFLEX, organization, staff, budget, publications, divisions, research projects and facilities.

Korea

Institute for Advanced Engineering, Engine Research Team: Involved in engine R&D activities mainly focused on GDI combustion systems, automotive CFD applications, and aftertreatment systems. The web-site includes examples of automotive applications of commercial CFD codes (mainly Star-CD, KIVA-3V, ICEM/CFD) to various engine development activities

Netherlands

Comflow: INUDENT/Delft University of Technology: Comflow is an easy-to use simple 2D CFD package for engineering purposes such as the design of waste heat boilers and (low pressure drop) packed bed reactors. The web site gives a description of the software, examples of flow calculations, opportunity to download a demo version.
CWI, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica: CWI is the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. They have a small group working with CFD for various applications. You can find information about the different projects here, including full access to papers and technical reports - very nice!

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ERCOFTAC - European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion.: Promotes joint European research in fluid flow, turbulence and combustion. Validation and maintenance of numerical codes and database. Coordinates a number of Special Interest Groups and Pilot Centers. Lots of information about all activities and people involved. Highly recommended !!

Norway

SINTEF Civil and Environmental Engineering: Research on river and hydropwer engineering using CFD. This includes sediment deposition and erosion, flood waves and other free surface flow, channel flow and local energy losses in waterways. Description of current research projects, including results and graphics.
SINTEF Materials and Chemistry - Flow Technology Department: A group working on numerical models for flows in metallurgical reactors. Examples of their research areas are dust separation from gases, gas bubbling in metalllurgical ladles, combustion and soot formation in off-gas from metallurgical furnaces, granular flow, magneto-hydrodynamics, ... The web site gives further information about personnel, research and publications.

Russia

GDT Software Group: Develops and markets GasDynamicsTool, a general purpose CFD program and multifunctional visualizer ScientificVR. The web site gives further information about the products. The front page is in Russian but you can reach an English version by clicking on "English".

South Africa

CSIR, CFD Consultants at Defencetek: Active in Computational Fluid Dynamics for over 10 years, the team grew out of two areas: aircraft / missile aerodynamics (store release) and gas turbine aerothermodynamics. Still heavily involved in these areas, work is also undertaken in the fields of helicopter aerodynamics, compressors, fans, ventilation, process flows, molten metal, noise, atmospheric pollution, etc. The focus is driven by market needs and generally involves solving problems nationally and internationally with established tools. The web site includes information about capabilities, contact information, personnel and links.

Switzerland

CERN - European Organization for Particle Physics: CERN is an international organization which undertakes fundamental research on high energy physics. Particle detectors and particle accelerators, used at CERN, dissipate important amount of heat (mainly because of their electronics), and they need to be controlled in temperature. Therefore, cooling systems have to be designed for these devices. The home page describes thermofluid simulation made on particle detectors and particle accelerators.

U.K.

CFDUG: A software independent CFD users group with its roots in the automotive industry. The web site gives a bit of background information, agenda for forthcoming and previous meetings and contact info. The site also includes a partial membership register.
NAFEMS: NAFEMS is an organisation aimed at fostering quality and standards in the numerical analysis of engineering problems. They have a CFD working group which hosts seminars and develops CFD training documentation.
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, CFD Community Club: A CFD club with about 750 members. Information about objectives, events, software and preprints.

U.S.A.

AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Information about the society, conferences, publications and more. A new and well structured site.
Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA: FEM calculations of fluid flow, turbulence research, astrophysics and more. Very nice introductions to the research programs with a lot of nice pictures. Preprint abstracts online.
Arnold Engineering Development Center, USA: A large complex of flight simulation test facilities. Information about their facilities, an online bibliography and much more.
ASME International: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Information about the society, conferences, publications and other resources. This is a large, well designed site with a lot of information.
Department of Defense, HPCMP, Computational Technology Areas, CFD: Coordinates several different CFD programs. Most of them are currently focused on gridding technologies. You might find more information at http://www.lcp.nrl.navy.mil/cfd-cta/. The web site outlines all projects. Most projects also have their own web sites where you can find further information. Interesting reading and a good overview.
ICASE - Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering: A center of research in applied mathematics, numerical analysis, fluid dynamics, and computer science operated by USRA. Information about research. Has a technical reports server online !
LANL, Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3): Information about people, research projects, publications and codes - nice !
LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
LANL, Scientific Computing Group: Several different research teams. The Numerical Analysis and Parallel Computing Cell works with CFD. Has information about group members, projects and publications.
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Center for Advanced Fluid Dynamics Applications: Information about research and facilities.
LBNL Applied Numerical Algorithms Group (ANAG): ANAG develops numerical algorithms and software for partial differential equations. The primary focus of the work is in the development of high-resolution and adaptive finite difference methods for partial differential equations in complex geometries, with applications to internal combustion engines and other industrial problems. The site gives information about research, software, personnel, and publications.
NASA Ames, NAS - Numerical Aerospace Simulation: Started in 1984 with the vision to develop a computing system capable of simulating an entire aerospace vehicle. Information about projects, people, publications and more. This is a very good web site !
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames, Rotorcraft CFD Group: CFD applied to rotor-craft problems such as, wakes convection, acoustic signature, rotor blade aero-elasticity, airfoil dynamic stall, and down loads on wings. Information about research and group members. A lot of helicopter stuff !
NASA Ames, Scalable Computing Lab, CFD Group: A very small group. A short introduction to their research.
NASA Ames, The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels: The most heavily used wind tunnel in all of NASA. Information about the facilities and projects.
NASA Langley, CFD Resources: There are several divisions at NASA Langley that work with CFD. For example, the Aero- and Gas Dynamics Division and the Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics Division. This page summarises the CFD work at NASA Langely. You can find a lot of information about personnel, geometry and grid generation, flow solvers, various CFD related utilites, research topics, publications, organisation and much more. This is a very interesting web site from a bunch of very good CFD guys!
NASA Langley Research Center
NASA Lewis, Internal Fluid Mechanics Division: Turbomachinery, ducts and nozzles, CFD, heat transfer, aerothermochemistry and more. Information about research branches. Not complete yet.
NASA Lewis Research Center
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Links to all major NASA sites.
NCSA, CFD Group: Direct and Large Eddy Simulations of turbulence. Numerical methods. Parallel machines. Information about members, research projects and codes. Has a bibliography online.
NPARC Alliance: The NPARC Alliance is a partnership between Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC). The main focus is to develop and maintain their own CFD codes. Most of the codes are available for free to US companies and organizations. The web site provides a lot of information about NPARC and the CFD code WIND. You can find papers, user manuals, a technical reports server and much more. This is a very nice site!
ORNL, Computational Physics and Engineering, Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow Group: Developed and maintains a general-purpose conduction heat transfer code (HEATING) and is developing a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics code (PHI3D). HTFFG has developed numerous special-purpose codes. Information about research projects.
Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling (T*AFSM): T*AFSM is an inter-institutional group of researchers focusing on development of advanced computational methods and tools for flow simulation and modeling. The web site gives research highlights for "Targeted Challenges" and many other complex, real-world applications, all displayed with graphics and brief description of advanced computational methods used. Internship programs based on challenging problems and use of advanced computational methods and hardware.
Wright Laboratory
Wright Laboratory, Aeroelasticity Section: CFD and Computational Structural Mechanics interactions to predict aircraft flutter. Information about research projects and people.
Wright Laboratory, Aeromechanics Division: A nice site. Look at the related sites lists !
Wright Laboratory, Aeromechanics Division, CFD Research Branch: Has a newsletter on mesh generation online.
Wright Laboratory, Aero Propulsion & Power Directorate (WL/PO): Aircraft turbine engines and missile propulsion.
Wright Laboratory, CFD Topics: A list of CFD topics.
Wright Laboratory, CFD Users: A list of people interested in CFD.

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