FloEFD is a unique CAD-embedded general purpose concurrent CFD software package largely automated to minimize the specialist expertise required to operate traditional CFD software. CAD-embedded CFD must simulate complex industrial turbulent flows with heat and mass transfer without simplifying the highly complex geometries. FloEFD is a mature code with over 10 years of commercial presence and a thousand man-years of development effort behind it. It's turbulence capabilities have been validated against some classic industrial CFD cases. It utilizes a modified k-ε two-equation turbulence model designed to simulate accurately a wide range of turbulence scenarios in association with its pioneering immersed boundary Cartesian meshing techniques that allow accurate flow field resolution with low cell mesh densities.

The classical two-equation k-ε empirical model for simulating turbulence effects in fluid flow CFD simulation is widely used and considered reliable for most industrial CFD simulations and it requires the minimum amount of additional information to calculate the flow field. In FloEFD the k-ε model is used with a range of additional empirical enhancements added to cover a wide range of industrial turbulent flow scenarios (such as shear flows, rotational flows etc.). For instance, damping functions proposed by Lam and Bremhorst for better boundary layer profile fit when resolving boundary layers with computational meshes have been added. This is coupled to a unique Two-Scale Wall Function (2SWF) treatment. This two-scale approach allows FloEFD to overcome the traditional CFD code restriction of having to employ a very fine mesh density near the walls in the calculation domain.