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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.
- CFD Australia Pty Ltd
- CFD software support (SWIFT and FIRE) and consulting services.
- 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.
- RPMTurbo
- RPMTurbo are specialists in linear flow analysis providing consulting services to worldwide customers. Linear flow analysis can be used to assess the flutter risk in turbomachinery and other aerospace structures (e.g. wings). To provide this service, RPMTurbo uses in house, linear and non-linear, three-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow solvers. RPMTurbo's premier service is the generation of Flutter Maps for turbomachinery which can be used by design engineers to identify potential flutter problems over a wide range of operating conditions.
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
- ALVIC-CFD Flow Solutions
- ALVIC-CFD is a Western Canadian consulting company providing services for fluids engineering. The key application areas are: the hydro, naval, automotive, aerospace and fluid structure interaction applications. The web site gives information about the services provided, contact information and past projects carried out.
- 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.
- Open Solver
- Consultation of a wide range of CFD problems, on-site installation and training of open source CFD solver, pre- and post-processors. The website provides information about service areas and applications results.
- 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
- Aero Concept Engineering
- Consulting company for CFD, CAD and rolling road wind tunnel studies, working in racecar, passenger car, railway industry ... The ACE website provides informations about equipments and services as well as examples of case studies.
- ESI Group
- Consulting and software development in computational applied mechanics. Specializing in Predictive Virtual Prototype Testing. ESI Group's CFD packages are CFD-ACE, CFD-Fastran and CFD-CADalyzer. CFD-ACE and Fastran were previously sold by CFD Research Corporation. 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
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Consultancy and Solutions. Renuda is an engineering consultancy firm with experience in modeling industrial applications of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion using Computational Fluid Dynamics. The website gives an overview of services proposed by Renuda, the experience that exists within the company and examples of projects in various industries.
- 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 Beratung
- Distributor of grid generator Gridgen in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Provide CFD consultancy and Gridgen training and support.
- 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!
- CFD Engineering
- CFD Engineering offers a variety of services throughout the entire field of the fluid dynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics. The website gives information about the company and the range of services and includes a gallery on CFD applications.
- 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.
- DETCHEM - DETailed CHEMistry models in CFD
- Software for simulating heteroegeneous (gas/solid) reactive flows using detailed chemistry model; Applications: Heterogeneous catalysis such as automotive catalytic converters and high temperature catalysis; materials synthesis by CVD; fuel cells; Tools: Equilibrium; Batch reactor; PFTR reactor with and without mass and heat transfer coefficients; 2D channel and annular flows; Fixed bed reactors; Monolithic reactors; Coupling to other CFD codes such as Fluent The website provides a survey of the software in DETCHEM package, manuals for download and information about applications.
- 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.
- LaVision
- LaVision designs and offers imaging measurement systems for fluid dynamics applying PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry), PTV and two phase flow algorithms.
- 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.
- SoftPredict
- SoftPredict is developer, distributor and vendor of CFD-related software, particularly in the area of combustion. Current main products are COSILAB including RUN1DL, and COSILAB_lib. COSILAB is a tool for simulation of steady and transient laminar flamelets and flames, spherical flames, tubular flames, two-phase flames and sprays. COSILAB_lib is a pre-compiled library of functions for the evaluation of chemical source terms, transport properties and related chemico-physical quantities. The company's main objective is to provide efficient tools for industry and academia for reaction design, analysis and development of reaction mechanisms, generation of flamelet libraries, calulation of flame speeds and related matters. The website provides company news, product information (methods, licenses, FAQs, papers, users, screenshots), a user forum, a product order page, and a download site for demo-versions and products.
- 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.
- JFPE
- The company provides Fire Protection and CFD analysis for fire scenarios in buildings and tunnels. The homepage provides general information on the company services
- 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').
- Modesi - Motion Design from the Lowlands
- Modesi offers development services for design, engineering and analysis (including FEM and CFD) in the mobility sector. Modesi acts as a 'single-point-of-contact' for complex development projects.
- 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.
- GexCon AS
- Atmospheric gas dispersion, explosion simulations, ventilation simulations and wind chill effects.
- 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.
Portugal
- blueCAPE
- CFD services: consultancy, coding and developing. Also does optimization. The website gives a company presentation, news, information about services and products and contact information.
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.
- PlasmaVenture Ltd.
- The company develops, markets and supports Fluent's suite of CFD software and consultancy services for Russia. PlasmaVenture Ltd. has done projects in process industry, heat transfer problems. The website gives an introduction to the company, products for sale, contact methods and examples of previous work.
South Africa
- Flownex
- M-Tech Industrial develops the systems CFD code Flownex, which enables users to perform detailed analysis and design of complete thermal-fluid systems ranging from simple pipe networks to complex power plants consisting of a variety of components such as pipes, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, pumps and valves. Flownex has the ability to perform both steady-state and dynamic analyses. The website describes the key features of Flownex and typical applications, including case studies.
- 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.
- Cambridge Flow Solutions
- Cambridge Flow Solutions (CFS) is a provider of proprietary CFD software and services. Their main application areas are aerospace, motorsport and oil gas. They are working on novel mesh deformation techniques (CFS MeshTools), advanced turbomachinery design optimisation (CFS TurboOptimiser) and a new framework for the efficient parallelisation of large CFD calculations (CFS GigaCell). The website gives an introduction to their products and 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 Consultancy Group - London
- CFDCG-London provides flow simulation services, including consultancy, sale or lease of software and user support. Also included are consultancy services for experimental fluid mechanics and education programmes.
- 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
- Point Zero Consulting Limited
- Based near Cambridge, Point Zero Consulting specialises in assisting companies with CFD. From the outsourcing of complete analysis projects through to the development and validation of new methodologies, or simply providing extra resources in periods of high demand.
- 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.
- Advanced Computational Solutions Consulting
- ACS consulting provides CFD consulting services encompassing a variety of engineering and scientific research areas. They are also a North American distributor for the PHOENICS code offering licenses and support. The website provides information on services and experience.
- AeroLogic, Personal Simulation Works
- Aero, surface and and marine streamline body definition 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.
- 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 Analysis & Design Solutions
- Provides 3D fluid dynamic simulations involving complex physics for engineering, R&D and investigative applications, for a variety of industries. Brief overview of services on web page (follow Case Studies link from home page).
- 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.
- Engineering Software
- Engineering software provides online services and software for energy conversion systems. The website provides many online tools to compute processes, physical properties and energy conversion systems.
- 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.
- FlowTack, LLC
- Working with physical and computational flow modeling.
- 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.
- FluSol
- A general purpose finite element CFD code with special mesh generator for rocket and missile. The website proviced information about numerical scheme, rocket and missile mesh generator, contour plots for results of 3D wing-body combinations.
- 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 Design
- Software manufacturer of the KINetics(tm) plug-in to CFD codes based upon the CHEMKIN(r) software for detailed chemical kinetics. Now available for CD-adapco, Fluent, and Ricardo software packages.
- 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.
- SoftInWay, Inc.
- SoftInWay's provides engineering services and software products in the area of research, design and digital prototyping of turbo-, thermo- and rotating machinery. Company uses in-house developed software products, as well as industry standard CFD and FEA tools to address design. Company's products: AxSTREAM-software for multidisciplinary design and optimization of flow path of axial turbomachinery; AxPLAN - software for design of experiment and optimization. The website gives an introduction of the company and their services and products.
- 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.
- STI-Technologies Inc.
- STI is a mechanical engineering consulting firm specializing in performing Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics. The website provides more details regarding core competencies, including some case studies if the field of rotating equipment.
- 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 abstracts of technical papers
- Tecplot, Inc.
- Develops and sells Tecplot. Tecplot is a large visualization code focused on engineering applications. They also sell a special add-on for post-processing CFD results. Tecplot is one of the most widely used CFD post-processors. Information about products and support.
- 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.