Compare the Top CFD Software for Windows as of October 2024

What is CFD Software for Windows?

CFD software is used to simulate fluid flow through a physical system. It uses numerical methods and algorithms to calculate complex flows involving heat transfer, turbulence and chemical reactions. CFD software is widely used in many industries, such as automotive and aerospace engineering, to identify potential design flaws before the product goes into production. Compare and read user reviews of the best CFD software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    alsim

    alsim

    ESS Engineering Software Steyr

    The popularity of ESS is mainly owing to our niche solutions in the automotive market. The success of our solutions in the competitive environment led ESS to set foot into the “on-demand” domain. With the alsim cloud, we are achieving something no one else has pulled off before. We offer simulation tools that can be used by anyone without any CFD knowledge on a pay-per-use basis. This ensures all consumers – students, engineers and businesses alike – can equip themselves with our cutting-edge techniques. Apart from the offline product offerings, we also serve our customers across all industries with solutions & reports based on our simulation results. We work closely with our customers in identifying their requirements and problem areas to provide them with highly accurate simulation results. Equipped with in-depth experience of industrial processes and robust solvers, we have been able to provide service to some of the major OEMs across the world with success.
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    bramble

    bramble

    Bramble CFD

    Part of the TotalSim family, bramble is a platform for CFD simulations that can be accessed from any web-enabled device. It streamlines the pre- and post-simulation process, increasing productivity and creating consistency between simulations. Included within the platform are customised data management and analysis tools, as well as CFD support and because the software uses OpenFOAM there are no license or subscription charges. bramble offers: 1. Increased productivity 2. Reliable results 3. Customized data management 4. Cost effective simulations 5. A user-friendly platform 6. Simulations that are scalable Bramble also leases and sells all the hardware needed to run CFD simulations.
    Starting Price: £0.011 per core hour
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    CF-MESH+

    CF-MESH+

    Creative Fields Holding, Ltd.

    CF-MESH+ is the latest CFD meshing software version developed by Creative Fields. It comprises advanced meshing workflows with an easy-to-use front-end interface allowing for superior user experience and efficiency. It features a powerful set of tools and functionalities for generating quality CFD meshes in arbitrary complex geometries encountered within the industry. The software features a degree of robustness that will help you enhance your productivity and get a competitive advantage in your simulation efforts.
    Starting Price: $500
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    PowerFLOW

    PowerFLOW

    Dassault Systèmes

    By leveraging our unique, inherently transient Lattice Boltzmann-based physics PowerFLOW CFD solution performs simulations that accurately predict real world conditions. Using the PowerFLOW suite, engineers evaluate product performance early in the design process prior to any prototype being built — when the impact of change is most significant for design and budgets. PowerFLOW imports fully complex model geometry and accurately and efficiently performs aerodynamic, aeroacoustic and thermal management simulations. Automated domain discretization and turbulence modeling with wall treatment eliminates the need for manual volume meshing and boundary layer meshing. Confidently run PowerFLOW simulations using large number of compute cores on common High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms.
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    HyperWorks

    HyperWorks

    Altair Engineering

    HyperWorks provides easy-to-learn, effective workflows that leverage domain knowledge and increase team productivity, enabling the efficient development of today’s increasingly complex and connected products. The new HyperWorks experience was created to free engineers to move from physics to physics, domain to domain, and even create reports without ever leaving their model. Create, explore and optimize designs within HyperWorks to produce robust designs that accurately model structures, mechanisms, fluids, electromagnetics, electrical, embedded software, systems design, and manufacturing processes. The solution-specific workflows enhance a growing number of engineering processes including fatigue analysis, concept design optimization, CFD modeling, and design exploration. Each provides a meticulously designed and intuitive user interface, differentiated for each user profile while remaining consistent and easy to learn.
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    SimFlow

    SimFlow

    SIMFLOW Technologies

    SimFlow is a desktop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis software for Windows and Linux OS. It is based on OpenFOAM libraries, acting like an OpenFOAM GUI. It is a professional CAE package for engineers offering fully-featured 3D simulations. SimFlow is a powerful general-purpose CFD software. It combines an intuitive graphical user interface with the advantages of the open-source OpenFOAM® libraries. Download SimFlow and use it for free in an evaluation mode to solve the most complex problems you face as an engineer, scientist or student. Maybe you use CFD software on a daily basis or maybe just want to start your adventure. Install SimFlow, rediscover the CFD world without any time limit and enjoy powerful fluid simulation software.
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    Tecplot 360
    Make Better Decisions with Tecplot 360, the most complete CFD Post processor. More CFD simulations are being run, grid sizes are getting larger, and data sets are being stored remotely. It’s essential that you have the right tools to handle large data sets, automate workflows, and visualize parametric results. Tecplot 360 helps you spend less time waiting and more time discovering. Integrate XY, 2D & 3D plots and get them looking exactly the way you want. Communicate your results with brilliant images and animations. Automate the boring stuff with PyTecplot Python scripting. Never miss a result when analyzing parametric data with Chorus. Securely access large, remote data with SZL-Server client-server. Load Tecplot, FLUENT, PLot3D, CGNS, OpenFOAM, FVCOM, VTU data and 22 other CFD, FEA, structural analysis, and industry-standard data formats. Report and compare solutions in a multi-frame environment with multiple pages.
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    Autodesk CFD
    Autodesk CFD is a computational fluid dynamics simulation software that engineers and analysts use to intelligently predict how liquids and gases will perform. Autodesk CFD helps to minimize the need for physical prototypes while providing deeper insight into fluid flow design performance. Autodesk CFD provides engineers with a range of powerful tools for system design optimization. Fluid flow and free surface movement. Thermal management for electronics cooling. BIM integration for occupant comfort of HVAC in AEC and MEP. The Application Programming Interface (API) and scripting functions expand the base capabilities of Autodesk CFD through the Decision Center’s customization and automation of common tasks. In addition, the Decision Center automates system design comparisons to speed up design-based decision making.
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    OpenFOAM

    OpenFOAM

    OpenFOAM

    OpenFOAM is the free, open-source CFD software developed primarily by OpenCFD Ltd since 2004. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organizations. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to acoustics, solid mechanics and electromagnetics. OpenFOAM is professionally released every six months to include customer-sponsored developments and contributions from the community. It is independently tested by ESI-OpenCFD's application specialists, development partners and selected customers, and supported by ESI's worldwide infrastructure, values and commitment. Quality assurance is based on rigorous testing. The process of code evaluation, verification and validation includes several hundred daily unit tests, a medium-sized test battery run on a weekly basis, and a large industry-based test battery-run.
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    Ansys CFX
    Known for its extreme robustness, CFX is the gold standard CFD software when it comes to turbomachinery applications. Both solver and models are wrapped in a modern, intuitive, and flexible GUI, with extensive capabilities for customization and automation using session files, scripting and a powerful expression language. Highly scalable high-performance computing will help speed up simulations including pumps, fans, compressors and turbines. New manufacturing methods have opened the door to more effective turbine cooling channel geometries. The new geometries will lead to better performance and efficiency but are more complex. To achieve highly accurate results, a team of Purdue engineers turned to Ansys CFX. The engineers executed key computations with little turnaround time. With the extra time, they could perform more in-depth comparisons and run further simulations to fully optimize their product.
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    Ansys Icepak
    Ansys Icepak is a CFD solver for electronics thermal management. It predicts airflow, temperature, and heat transfer in IC packages, PCBs, electronic assemblies/enclosures, and power electronics. Ansys Icepak provides powerful electronic cooling solutions that utilize the industry-leading Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and electronic assemblies. The Ansys Icepak CFD solver uses the Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) graphical user interface (GUI). Perform conduction, convection, and radiation conjugate heat transfer analyses, with many advanced capabilities to model laminar and turbulent flows, and species analysis including radiation and convection. Ansys’ complete PCB design solution enables you to simulate PCBs, ICs, and packages and accurately evaluate an entire system.
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    CAESIM

    CAESIM

    Adaptive Research

    Adaptive Research is pleased to announce the immediate release of the CAESIM 2024 simulation platform, providing advanced computational fluid dynamics modeling with multi-physics capabilities. The new software release provides new tools and capabilities that optimize the modeling process and provide the CFD engineer with fast simulation solutions.
    Starting Price: $1295/annual standard
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    Azore CFD

    Azore CFD

    Azore CFD

    Azore is a computational fluid dynamics software tool for analyzing fluid flow and heat transfer. CFD provides engineers and scientists a method for analyzing a wide array of fluid mechanics, thermal, and chemical problems numerically on a computer. Many different types of fluid dynamic situations can be simulated using Azore, including air, gas, liquid, or particulate-laden flows. For liquid systems, modeling the flow of water through a piping system or evaluating water velocity profiles around submerged objects are common uses of Azore. The flow of air or gases can also be analyzed such as simulating the ambient air velocity profiles of wind as it passes around buildings or investigating the flow and heat transfer inside a room, duct system, mechanical equipment, or industrial process. Azore CFD can be used to simulate essentially any incompressible, steady-state, or transient fluid flow model, including problems that involve conjugate heat transfer and species transport.
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    6SigmaET

    6SigmaET

    6SigmaET

    6SigmaET is an electronics thermal modeling tool that uses advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to create accurate models of electronic equipment. Designed specifically for the electronics industry, our thermal simulation software ushers in unparalleled intelligence, automation and accuracy to help you meet your requirements and overcome thermal design challenges. Since its inception in 2009, 6SigmaET has become the fastest-growing thermal simulation software in the electronics cooling market. The versatility of 6SigmaET allows you to simulate the thermal performance of electronic components: ranging from the smallest ICs to the largest, most powerful servers. Learn more about 6SigmaET's value to your industry by watching one of our videos or exploring our case studies. The complete CAD geometry of a device and PCB design can be imported into 6SigmaET for thermal analysis, reducing model creation time.
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    GASP

    GASP

    AeroSoft

    GASP is a structured/unstructured, multi-block CFD flow solver which solves the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations as well as the heat conduction equation for solid bodies. Hierarchical-tree based organization. Pre- and post-processing in one interface. Solves steady and unsteady 3-D, Reynolds-Averaged, Navier-Stokes Equations (RANS) and subsets. Multi-block structured/unstructured grid topology. Unstructured mesh support for tetrahdra, hexahedra, prisms, and pyramids. Integration with portable extensible toolkit for scientific computation library. Uncoupling of systems including turbulence and chemistry for improved computational efficiency. Support for most parallel computers, including clusters. Integrated domain decomposition is transparent to the user.
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    Stallion 3D

    Stallion 3D

    Hanley Innovations

    Stallion 3D quickly generates aerodynamic performance data (lift, drag and moments) for new and existing CAD designs. Get superior RANS results without having to make a single grid. Grid generation in Stallion 3D is fully automatic. This eliminates the most time consuming and painful bottleneck in CFD. Stallion 3D quickly and accurately predicts the aerodynamic performance of your designs using its proprietary CFD algorithm (HIST). The software imports your CAD models and generates the 3D aerodynamic data needed to verify your designs and ensure your success. Reports of lift, drag, yaw, roll, pitch magnitudes and related forces and moments in the coordinates direction. Plots of 2D line graphs of Cp, velocity, mach number, density and temperature at constant coordinates locations long the STL surface (for example, you can plot Cp (x) at any span location along the wing).
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    Fidelity CFD

    Fidelity CFD

    Cadence Design Systems

    Accelerate engineering with the industry's only intuitive, comprehensive CFD platform for multidisciplinary design and optimization. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an aspect of multiphysics system analysis that simulates the behavior of fluids and their thermodynamic properties using numerical models. Engineers use the Cadence Fidelity CFD platform design processes, such as propulsion, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and combustion, to improve and increase the efficiency of products by reducing time-consuming and expensive physical testing. Fidelity CFD platform provides an easy-to-use end-to-end CFD solution for multidisciplinary design and optimization, in applications such as aerospace, automotive, turbomachinery, and marine industries. The platform, with its streamlined workflows, massively parallel architecture, and state-of-the-art solver technology, provides unprecedented performance and accuracy and increases engineering efficiency for today’s design challenges.
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