private industry computational fluid dynamics software founded 1980 headquarters santa fe new mexico usa key people thomas jensen president ; products flow 3d flow 3d mp flow 3d cast flow 3d thermoset website www.flow3d.com flow science inc. is a developer of software for computational fluid dynamics also known as cfd a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows . contents 1 history 2 products 3 applications 4 references history edit the firm was founded by dr. c. w. tony hirt previously a scientist at los alamos national laboratory lanl . hirt was known for having pioneered the volume of fluid method vof for tracking and locating the free surface or fluid fluid interface . t hirt 1 2 left lanl and founded flow science in 1980 to develop cfd software for industrial and scientific applications using the vof method . 3 the company is located in santa fe new mexico and opened an office in japan in june 2011 . 4 products edit the company s products include flow 3d a cfd software analyzing various physical flow processes ; flow 3d mp a cfd high performance computing product ; flow 3d cast a software product for casting users ; and flow 3d thermoset a thermosetting resin cfd modeling software for products using thermosetting resins . 5 the flow 3d software uses a fractional areas volumes approach also known as favor for defining problem geometry and a free gridding technique for mesh generation . 6 desktop engineering magazine in a review of flow 3d version 10.0 said key enhancements include fluid structure interaction fsi and thermal stress evolution tse models that use a combination of conforming finite element and structured finite difference meshes . you use these to simulate and analyze the deformations of solid components as well as solidified fluid regions and resulting stresses in response to pressure forces and thermal gradients . 7 applications edit blue hill hydraulics used flow 3d software to update the design of a fish ladder on mt. desert island maine that helps alewife migrate to the fresh water spawning habitat . t. 8 aecom technology corporation studied emergency overflows from the powell butte reservoir and demonstrated that the existing energy dissipation structure was not capable of handling 170 million us gallons 640 000 m3 per day the maximum expected overflow rate . the flow 3d simulation demonstrated that problem could be solved by increasing the height of the wing walls by exactly one foot . 9 researchers from the cast cooperative research centre and m. murray associates developed flow and thermal control methods for the high pressure die casting of thin walled aluminum components with thicknesses of less than 1 mm . flow 3d simulation predicted the complex structure of the metal flow in the die and subsequent casting solidification . 10 researchers at dupont used flow 3d to optimize coating processes for a solution coated active matrix organic light emitting diode amoled display technology . 11 eastman kodak company researchers rapidly developed an inkjet printer technology using flow 3 d simulation technology for predicting the performance of printhead designs . 12 a research team composed of members from auburn university lamar university and rjr engineering used flow science s truvof method as a virtual laboratory to evaluate performance of highway pavement and drainage inlets with different geometries . 13 researchers at albany chicago llc and the university of wisconsin milwaukee used flow 3d in conjunction with a one dimensional algorithm to analyze the slow shot and fast shot die casting processes in order to reduce the number of iterations required to achieve desired process parameters . 14 references edit nichols b.d. and hirt c.w. methods for calculating multi dimensional transient free surface flows past bodies proceedings first international conference numerical ship hydrodynamics gaithersburg md october 20 23 1975 . hirt c.w. ; nichols b.d. 1981 volume of fluid vof method for the dynamics of free boundaries journal of computational physics 39 1 201 225 1981 . bloomberg business week c. w. hirt executive profile . flow science opens office in japan president affirms positive market outlook after quake jetro spotlight united states june 11 2011 . flow science profile bloomberg businessweek . pamela j. waterman zeroing in on cfd solutions desktop engineering august 30 2009 . anthony j. lockwood editors pick flow science release flow 3d version 10.0 desktop engineering august 9 2011 . john e. richardson cfd saves the alewife desktop engineering july 2 2007 . liaqat a. khan computational fluid dynamics modeling of emergency overflows through an energy dissipation structure of a water treatment plant proceedings of the 2011 world environmental and water resources congress american society of civil engineers . thang nguyen vu nguyen morris murray gary savage john carrig modeling die filling in ultra thin aluminium castings materials science forum volume 690 2011 . reid chesterfield andrew johnson charlie lang matthew stainer and jonathan ziebarth solution coating technology for amoled displays information display magazine january 2011 . christopher n. delametter virtual prototyping accelerates mems inkjet product development cfd review december 12 2008 . xing fang shoudong jiang shoeb alam numerical simulations of efficiency of curb opening inlets journal of hydraulic engineering american society of civil engineers january 2010 . a. riekher h. gerber k.m. pillai t. c. jen application of a one dimensional numerical simulation to optimize process parameters of a thin wall casting in high pressure die casting die casting engineer may 2009 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flow science inc. & oldid 659765715 categories companies based in santa fe new mexicocomputational fluid dynamicssoftware companies based in new mexico navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 april 2015 at 22 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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