FLOW-3D is a CFD (Computational fluid dynamic) software which offers the greatest level of accuracy. It is developed by Flow Science and distributed all around the world since 1985.Its unique features make FLOW-3D the best instrument for R&D, at the design stage and to improve all the production processes involving the dynamics of fluids.
The unique features
FLOW-3D unlike others commercial CFD software has been completely developed to be natively transient and to solve with the highest level of accuracy free-surface flows; those characteristics make FLOW-3D a unique and absolutely distinguish software. This software was born inside Los Alamos Laboratories from the ideas of Dr. Hirt, inventor of the VOF numerical method, the best algorithm for fluid free surface tracking. With the years the traditional VOF has evolved in the incomparable TruVOF, absolutely the best for accuracy and performances. Those algorithms works together with a Cartesian mesh, which makes the setup phase a matter of only very few minutes, and the FAVOR algorithm for object surface treatment, which allows a resolution comparable to the body fitted mesh, but with an incomparable higher computational efficiency. Learn more
Rich in multiphysics
The code is totally “general purpose”: Born for aerospace industry as sloshing analysis, it is today used for many other application fields: hydraulics/environmental, consumer products, inkjet printers, foundry, coating, maritime, till the latest modern applications such as biomedical and MEMS. All this is achieved using the rich multiphysics included in FLOW-3D code: the CFD code is strong coupled with a heat transfer model, contains a general moving object model up to 6 degrees of freedoms with friction and collision; it also possible to study the interaction of fluid and structure and analyze the thermal and mechanical solicitations, and lot more. All this keeping the speed and the simplicity of FLOW-3D. Learn More
One only package
FLOW-3D is an all-inclusive package, from the setup of the simulation to the post-processing, without any additional module. An intuitive graphical user interface guides the user step-by-step through the problem, while data analysis is done with the engine of Ensight, post-processor of the latest generation, which enable the user to obtain precise results quickly and understand and present them clearly. Finally, the code of FLOW-3D is partially open-source, giving the possibility to customize the software to fit every needs.
