Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a Fluent partner providing the gPROMS dynamic process modeling software, recently announced a new product linking gPROMS to FLUENT for reactive flow modeling. gO:CFD, the “gPROMS Object for Reactive CFD” provides FLUENT users with the option of using gPROMS’ flexible equation solving environment to implement complex reaction chemistry in the context of their CFD simulations.

“Reactive flow modeling is one of the next frontiers for use of computer- aided engineering in the process industries,” notes Ahmad Haidari, Fluent’s US Chemical and Process Industry Director. “We are pleased to see gO:CFD emerge as a bridge between FLUENT’s native capability and the customized models that our users would like to build and access in gPROMS.” Essentially a “user-defined function” for reacting flow modeling, gO:CFD provides a framework for implementation and rapid solution of models that describe liquid phase reacting systems, heterogeneous surface-catalyzed reactions, membrane chemistry, and other complex thermo-chemical processes.

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