FloEFD

FloEFD™ is “Concurrent CFD”: analyze as you design and speed up your workflow.

FloEFD is the ONLY computational fluid dynamics analysis tool that is truly embedded into major MCAD systems. These include Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, Siemens NX and SolidWorks; and tight integration with Inventor and SolidEdge. FloEFD is a full-featured 3D fluid flow, heat transfer analysis package that is both fast to learn and fast to use because it doesn’t come with the numerical complexity and meshing overheads of traditional high-end CFD.

FloEFD 11 for Creo Trial Version
FloEFD 11 for CATIA V5 Trial Version
FloEFD 11 for NX Trial Version

Try concurrent FloEFD 11 software, fully embedded in Creo Parametric and Wildfire, CATIA V5 or Siemens NX. The 60 day trial software includes heat transfer, pressure drop, exhaust manifold, mixing armature and roof-mounted figure... FloEFD for Creo Software Evaluation or FloEFD for CATIA V5 Software Evaluation or FloEFD for NX Software Evaluation.

Web Seminars

FloEFD Demo

FloEFD Demo

Technology Overview: Design better, more reliable products, faster with Concurrent CFD - embedded computational fluid dynamics purposely designed for the Design Engineer. FloEFD allows users to perform quick, accurate CFD analysis...

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Measuring and Optimizing Pressure Drop

Measuring and Optimizing Pressure Drop

On-demand Web Seminar: This webinar discusses the complexities of designing a valve while controlling pressure drop and what this means for the overall design of the finished product.

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Features and Benefits

Easy-to-use CAD embedded Concurrent CFD

For analysis to become an integral part of the design process, it must be easy to use and able to adapt readily to your design process. Developed for engineers, FloEFD turns CFD analysis into a plug-in for CAD. Because of its intuitive interface, FloEFD is extremely easy to use – in fact, most design engineers report that they can use FloEFD with less than 8 hours of training.

Better Products, Faster

Award winning FloEFD is ‘Concurrent CFD’, fully embedded CFD analysis software that enables Design Engineers to better products, faster.

Industries around the world such as aerospace, automotive, medical devices, industrial machinery, pumps/ valves etc, use ‘concurrent’ FloEFD to:

  • Improve product performance, functionality and reliability
  • Reduce physical prototyping and production costs
  • Minimize risk of making design mistakes
  • Save both time and money by reducing design times and speeding up workflow

Quickly generate reports

You can create and distribute your animated results as well as quickly generate reports in Microsoft ® Excel and Word, including all your favorite plots.

Analysis wizard

FloEFD’s powerful wizard guides you through the problem set-up so you don’t forget any important steps before the solution step.

Effortless what-if testing

Perhaps the most powerful feature of FloEFD is the ease with which you can conduct “what-if” analysis. Easily modify your models and immediately analyze them: : FloEFD helps you create multiple variations of your designs by modifying your solid model without needing to reapply loads, boundary conditions, etc. Simply compare your many design options and choose the best one for your final design!

Robust visualization

Once you have analyzed your problem, viewing the results is a matter of point-and-click: simply choose the appropriate options from a menu and the system will quickly generate your desired plots.

FloEFD Product Family

FloEFD for Creo, CATIA V5 and NX

CFD natively embedded in your solution

FloEFD for Creo CFD embedded in Creo Parametric and Wildfire

FloEFD for CATIA V5: CFD embedded in CATIA V5

FloEFD for NX. CFD embedded in Siemens NX

Unlike other 3rd party CFD programs, FloEFD for Creo, FloEFD for CATIA V5 and FloEFD for NX work directly with native Creo Parametric, native CATIA V5 and native Siemens NX geometry, respectively – with no translation or copies – in order to keep pace with on-going design changes. FloEFD for Creo, FloEFD for CATIA V5 and FloEFD for NX have the same “look and feel” so you can focus on solving your problem instead of learning a new environment.

These versions directly use Creo Parametric and Wildfire, CATIA V5 and Siemens NX geometry and solid model information such as features and parameters to help you simulate your designs in real-world conditions. Direct use of native geometry is an extremely powerful feature since it provides you with functionality that is not easily offered by other CFD programs.

Since you’re using the same exact geometry for CAD and analysis, you maintain one set of data across your product design process, and your analysis is always in tune with your design.

FloEFD for Inventor, SolidEdge and SolidWorks

Works with your MCAD software

FloEFD for Inventor, SolidEdge and SolidWorks

The analysis process with FloEFD is fast, intuitive and effortless.

FloEFD fits within your product development process – from concept to customer support. Plus, its interface will be familiar as it offers many of the same time-saving and ease-of-use functionality offered by leading mechanical computer-aided design systems.

Combined with your MCAD software, FloEFD provides you with a powerful simulation tool and reduces the need for building multiple costly physical prototypes.

FloEFD™ Flexx

For multi-CAD strategies

FloEFD Flexx allows companies with multi-CAD strategies to use FloEFD with their preferred CAD system.

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  • Intel Pentium 4 (or higher) or AMD Athlon (or higher) based PC
  • 512 MB RAM minimum, more recommended
  • 1.5 GB free hard disk space for installation, more required for simulation models
  • Microsoft Windows XP x86/x64 or Windows Vista x86/x64, Windows Server 2003 x86, Windows Server 2003 x64
  • Microsoft Office XP; Office 2000; Office 2003; Office 2007
  • Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire v2; v3; v4 [FloEFD Pro Only]
  • CATIA V5 Windows 32bit: R16, R17, R18 and R19. Windows 64bit: R17, R18 and R19 [FloEFD.V5 Only]
  • Language Support: Japanese, English

Award-Winning Technology

Best New Product - Golden MouseTrapFloEFD wins Best OFweek 2011 LED Design Product Award

Leading Product Award - EDN2010 – FloEFD - Leading Product Award – EDN

Best New Product - Golden MouseTrap2010 – FloEFD - Best New Product– Golden Mousetrap

Best Product Award: Mentor Graphics Concurrent CFD analysis software FloEFD, wins 2009 EDN award for Best Product. Read more

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Industry Applications

MCAD embedded FloEFD is used by Design Engineers globally, across a wide range of applications, including: