As your industry rapidly evolves, and you are faced with pressures to continually improve both products and processes, consider the competitive advantage you can gain with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology. CFD software predicts fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reaction. Using it, you build a virtual prototype of your product or process to simulate real-world conditions. CFD complements physical modeling and other experimental techniques by providing a detailed look into your flow problems. It also allows you to ask the "What if…?" questions and see the consequences before committing to a design or alteration.

Fluent's CFD software allows you to increase your understanding of food and beverage products and processes, to quickly optimize your designs, and ultimately, to shorten your time to market.

• Virtual Testing Expedites Process Design: Food Product Design Magazine article (March 2005)