Autodesk® CFD software provides computational fluid dynamics and thermal simulation tools to help you make great products. Pair the CFD Design Study Environment with a solver to predict product performance, optimize designs, and validate product behavior before manufacturing.
Computational fluid dynamics software
Autodesk® CFD software provides fast, accurate, and flexible fluid flow and thermal simulation tools to help predict product performance, optimize designs, and validate product behavior before manufacturing—minimizing reliance on costly physical prototypes and helping you get innovative products to market faster. Easily explore and compare design alternatives and better understand the implications of design choices using an innovative Design Study Environment and automation tools. Autodesk CFD software supports direct data exchange with most CAD software tools including Autodesk® Inventor® software, Autodesk® Revit® software, Pro/ENGINEER®, and SolidWorks®. Autodesk CFD software enables you to make great products.
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Thermal prototyping
Solve for all modes of heat transfer from solid to solid or solid to fluids.
Architectural and MEP tools
Use CFD and thermal modeling tools for architectural and MEP applications.
Industrial flow control
Optimize designs when you need to improve pressure drop or flow distribution.
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Autodesk CFD, Autodesk CFD Advanced, and Autodesk CFD Motion
Autodesk CFD is available in 3 levels of solvers: Autodesk CFD, Autodesk CFD Advanced, and Autodesk CFD Motion. The CFD Design Study Environment must be paired with a CFD solver for simulations.
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| Direct modeling with SimStudio Tools |
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| Defeaturing with SimStudio Tools |
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| MultiCAD data exchange |
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| Design study automation |
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| Multi-scenario design review center |
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| Model-centric interface |
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| Customizable material databases |
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| Heat sink, compact thermal, LED, and TEC models |
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| Fan, porous media, HX, TIM, and PCB models |
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| Non-Newtonian fluid materials |
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| Point, wall, and bulk-flow data extraction |
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| Pre- and post-processing API |
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| Customizable report generator |
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| Web and mobile storage, sharing, and viewing |
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| FSI with Simulation Mechanical |
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| Simulation Data Management with Vault |
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| Export results to Showcase, 3DS max, VRED, Maya |
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| Fluid flow |
| 2D and 3D Cartesian |
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| 2D axisymmetric |
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| Laminar flow |
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| Turbulent flow |
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| Incompressible flow |
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| Subsonic flow |
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| Compressible flow |
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| Steady state (time-independent) |
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| Transient (time-varying) |
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| Lagrangian particle tracking |
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| Two-fluid scalar mixing |
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| Two-phase flows (humidity and steam) |
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| Nucleate boiling |
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| Height of fluid |
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| Free surface (Volume Of Fluid) |
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| Compressible liquid (water hammer) |
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| Cavitation |
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| Heat transfer |
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| Forced, natural, mixed convection |
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| Thermal comfort calculation |
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| Temperature-dependent heat source |
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| Radiation heat transfer |
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| Radiation through transparent media |
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| Solar loading |
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| Temperature-dependent emissivity |
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| Joule heating (temperature-dependent resistivity) |
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| Intelligent meshing |
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| Automatic mesh sizing |
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| Solution-adaptive mesh |
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| Global and local size adjustment |
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| Boundary-layer mesh enhancement |
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| Interactive mesh-refinement regions |
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| Extrusion meshing |
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| Mesh growth-rate control |
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| Fluid gap and thin solid refinement |
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| Surface wrap meshing |
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| Turbulence models |
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| K-epsilon with intelligent wall formulation |
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| Low Reynolds number K-epsilon |
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| SST k-omega |
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| SST k-omega SAS (Scale Adaptive Simulation) |
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| SST k-omega DES (Detached Eddy Simulation) |
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| SST K-omega RC (Smirnov Menter) |
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| SST K-omega RC (Hellsten) |
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| RNG |
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| Eddy viscosity |
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| Mixing length |
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| Automatic turbulence startup |
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| Laminar |
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| SOLID BODY MOTION |
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| Multiple rotating frame of reference |
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| Linear |
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| Angular |
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| Combined linear and angular |
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| Combined orbital and angular |
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| Nutating |
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| Sliding vane |
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| Unconstrained (6 DOF) motion |
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| HIGH-PERFORMANCE SOLVING (INCLUDED) |
| Multicore single machine |
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| Microsoft HPC cluster |
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| Multi-node solving |
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| Remote solving |
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| Parallel solving on multiple machines* |
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*Requires multiple solver licenses.