Computational Fluid Dynamics is Changing the World

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is accelerating product design and development across multiple industries worldwide by eliminating the need to add time, resources and costs associated with the need to build expensive physical prototypes as part of the design cycle.

Using CFD, companies can model and simulate the interaction of liquids and gases with solid surfaces, addressing one of the key challenges in creating almost any product, ranging from bicycles to supersonic aircraft, propellers to turbine engines, or from potato chips to silicon chips. By providing an open platform for CFD, SGI aims to make CFD available to all product designers around the world.

SGI® OpenCFD™ is the open source leader in CFD software and has a large, active user base across commercial engineering, science and the public sector. SGI OpenFOAM consists of over 80 solver and 170 utility applications - a total of over one million lines of code - to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer to solid dynamics and electromagnetics. OpenFOAM customers include some of the world's leading aircraft and vehicle manufacturers, in addition to other industrial firms and government agencies. Unlike proprietary legacy solutions, OpenFoam is open and offers customers immediate access and the freedom to customize and extend its existing capability.

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