Computational Fluid Dynamics

Creare offers a full range of services and longstanding experience in both the art and science of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). We develop cutting-edge software and create innovative physics-based models for challenging phenomena, and we apply CFD tools together with theory, engineering analysis, and laboratory testing to address a host of practical industrial flow and heat transfer needs. Creare specializes in solving challenging and non-routine CFD problems at or beyond the current state-of-the-art and in unifying CFD predictions with key elements of theory and data.

Our experience includes laminar and turbulent flow, single-phase and multiphase flow, steady-state and transient situations, heat and mass transfer, and chemically reacting flows. We have developed software for pre- and post-processing, grid generation, database management, and visualization as well as for solution of the governing equations and physical models for platforms ranging from PCs to supercomputers.

Projects have involved development of software for multiphase flows with aerosols, specialized models for transport of gas, vapors, and liquids in protective fabrics, design of chemical vapor deposition and etch equipment for the semiconductor industry, implementation of customized graphical user interfaces, and thermal-fluid design of consumer products.

Our success in CFD began in 1983, when Creare, in conjunction with its consultants, developed FLUENT™, a state-of-the-art, general-purpose CFD code. FLUENT is now the most widely used commercial CFD code available, with over 2000 installations world-wide, and is marketed and supported by a Creare spin-off company, Fluent Inc. Today Creare engineers continue to offer a uniquely integrated blend of CFD, analysis, design, fabrication, and experimental services to our clients.