Flow Modeling Solutions for Industry
To meet the vast fluid flow modeling needs of a broad spectrum of industries around the world, Fluent has been at the forefront of developing and driving computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Diverse modeling capabilities allow Fluent's software products to tackle problems from most major industry sectors. Product flexibility and customizability allow our customers to routinely push our products into new application areas.
The number of industries that have benefited from using Fluent's software products and services continues to expand. Customers have learned that CFD analysis can reduce the time to market, improve product quality, and save money.
Application Spotlight
Avoiding Explosive Outcomes
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Australian Defence Industries (ADI), through its Land Ordnance Unit, manufactures energetic products, mostly for military applications. There are inherent risks in the manufacture of high explosives such as RDX and TNT and their derivatives. Consequently, it is not always convenient to optimize the unit operation by building a pilot-scale version or to conduct physical experiments in the actual plants. Inappropriate experiments or small errors made in such sensitive conditions may lead to catastrophic losses. Apart from the safety aspects, stopping production to conduct experiments may be economically prohibitive. CFD has therefore been introduced to help identify the underlying cause of inconsistent production quality.
Customer Testimonials
“Every product in the shipbuilding industry is completely tailor-made, and therefore, each project requires separate R&D efforts and individual design. The tight schedules and large scales of the product make physical testing nearly impossible. At DSME, FLUENT has been validated against test results to give us confidence in its predictions. We have used it for simulations of smoke emission, boundary layer flow around streamlined bodies, and HVAC&R studies. The combination of high performance computing, and the quantitative accuracy and wealth of physical models in FLUENT has helped us save millions of dollars. More importantly, we see CFD as a rapidly expanding technology for the shipbuilding and marine industry as a whole.”