Pre-processing and Simulation Tools: CFD
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This is a list of commercial & free softwares for CFD and pre-processors only packages. Links to online resources on Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Simulation and Mesh Generation have also been provided. |
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| Commercial Programs | Meshing and 'Free' Programs" |
| ZEUS NUMERIX | POINTWISE: GridGen --- Taken over by Cadence in 2021 |
ANSYS Products
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Software free for all purposes: |
| CD-ADAPCO Products: (STAR - Simulation of Turbulence in Arbitrary Region) | Altair: Hypermesh |
AVL Products
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ANSA |
| NUMECA Products | GNUPlot 3DField: Contour Map |
| PHOENICS: Parabolic Hyperbolic Or Elliptic Numerical Integration Code Series | EasyCFD |
| RICARDO Products | FEATFLOW |
| CRADLE Products | EnGRID EnSight - now part of ANSYS |
MENTOR GRAPHICS: FloEFD
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+FE Module |
| ACRi CFD: ANSWER | FieldView |
| RadTherm: Heat Transfer Analysis Software | TetrUSS |
| FEMAP: Siemens PLM | ** |
| FLOW-3D | GridPro |
| COMSOL | Triangle: 2D Mesh Generator |
| CFD++ | COMET - Ferziger & Peric: FORTRAN Codes |
| XFlow | Trelis CFD |
"Simulation CFD" (formerly CFDesign)
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GMSH |
AcuSolve from Altair
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MeshLab |
NOGRID
| Visualization Toolkit |
FLOWVISION
| SU2 |
TileFlow: CFD for Data Centres
| NetGen |
ESI Group CFD
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TechPlot |
| ADINA CFD | Geompack ++ Discretizer |
| CONVERGETM from Convergent Science | TeraPlot |
NISA
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CUBIT |
| KIVA: Ignition, combustion, and pollutant-formation processes in engines | Nektar++ |
| FlowSquare | CADfix |
| PumpLinx: customized for quick turn-around in simulations of turbo-machineries | VisIt: Open-source Post-processing Tool |
| SOFiSTiK | DOLFYN Open Source CFD |
| DISLIN: Device-Independent Software LINdau - Data Plotting Library - - written by Helmut Michels at the Max Planck Institute in Lindau | FLASH |
| Caedium - from Symscale | NaSt2D: Navier-Stokes solver in 2D - freeware written in C |
| SMARTFIRE- Fire Simulation Tool for Fire Engineers | FDS- Fire Dynamic Simulation for fire-driven flows |
| FLARESIM- flare systems for offshore platforms, gas plants, refineries and chemical plants | EURANUS - EURopean Aerodynamic NUmerical Simulation |
| iconCFD | PARNASSOS: Maritime Research Institute Netherlands |
| CM2 MeshTools & CM2 FEM | DistMesh: Mesh Generation in MATLAB |
| TEXSTAN | Automesh2D |
| FAST: Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence for Wind Turbines | Jaal , For additional info, click here |
| Newton: Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) for material flows | |
| Here is a bigger list! | |
| NAFEMS: International Association of Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community | |
| MAGMASOFT: Casting Simulation | |
| CGNS: CFD General Notation System | |
| AIAA: V & V for CFD | |
| NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Computational Fluid Dynamics Best Practice Guidelines for Dry Cask Applications: Final Report (NUREG-2152) | |
| Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics | |
| Centre for Turbulence Reseach | |
| APS: Americal Physics Society | |
| ASHRAE: Americal Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineering | |
| IFRF: International Flame Research Foundation | |
| Journal of Computational Physics | |
| International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow | |
| International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow | |
| NREL: National Renewable Enerry Laboratory | |
| A very useful link of meshing technology | |
| FCRI: Fluid Control Research Institute, India | |
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