CFDTool Alternatives

CFDTool is described as '(https://www.cfdtool.com) is a fully integrated and dedicated MATLAB® Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Toolbox for modeling and simulation of fluid flows with coupled heat transfer' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to CFDTool for Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and MATLAB. The best CFDTool alternative is COMSOL Multiphysics. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try FEATool Multiphysics or OpenFOAM. Other great apps like CFDTool are SimScale, Code_Aster, Code_Saturne and KRATOS Multiphysics.

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  1. COMSOL Multiphysics is an engineering, design, and finite element analysis software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system.

    54 COMSOL Multiphysics alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • COMSOL Multiphysics is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to CFDTool.

    • COMSOL Multiphysics is the most popular commercial alternative to CFDTool.

    • COMSOL Multiphysics is Paid and ProprietaryCFDTool is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. FEATool is a fully integrated multiphysics modeling and engineering simulation environment for Matlab and Octave, featuring built-in CAD and geometry tools, preprocessing and grid generation, solvers, and postprocessing and visualization.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GNU Octave
    • MATLAB
     
    • FEATool Multiphysics is the most popular free alternative to CFDTool.

    • FEATool Multiphysics is Freemium and ProprietaryCFDTool is also Freemium and Proprietary
  3. SimScale icon
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    SimScale offers a software that allows you to perform CFD, FEA, and Thermal simulations to your CAD model in the cloud without needing high-performance computing power.

    22 SimScale alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • SimScale is the most popular Web-based alternative to CFDTool.

    • SimScale is Paid and ProprietaryCFDTool is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. OpenFOAM icon
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    OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for CFD, owned by the OpenFOAM Foundation and distributed exclusively under the General Public Licence (GPL). The GPL gives users the freedom to modify and redistribute the software and a guarantee of continued free use, within...

    18 OpenFOAM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • OpenFOAM is the most popular Open Source alternative to CFDTool.

    • OpenFOAM is Free and Open SourceCFDTool is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Structures and thermomechanics analysis for studies and research.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Code_Saturne icon
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    Code_Saturne solves the Navier-Stokes equations for 2D, 2D-axisymmetric and 3D flows, steady or unsteady, laminar or turbulent, incompressible or weakly dilatable, isothermal or not, with scalars transport if required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Kratos Multiphysics (A.K.A Kratos) is a framework for building parallel multi-disciplinary simulation software. Modularity, extensibility and HPC are the main objectives. Kratos has BSD license and is written in C++ with extensive Python interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. ANSYS Fluent icon
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    ANSYS Fluent software contains the broad physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications ranging from air flow over an aircraft wing to combustion in a furnace, from bubble columns to oil platforms, from...

    25 ANSYS Fluent alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. SimFlow icon
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    SimFlow is a powerful CFD software, focused on engineering and science. It combines an intuitive user interface with the advantages of the open-source OpenFOAM® libraries in something more than a compact OpenFoam® GUI.

    26 SimFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Caedium icon
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    Caedium (formerly SymLab) and its add-ons combine to form an easy-to-use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software system to help you assess the performance of your 3D models.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. COSMOSWorks icon
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    COSMOSWorks provides easy to use yet powerful design validation and optimization tools for designers and engineers alike. COSMOSWorks enables faster, less costly, and more optimized product development, as well as more in-depth examination of product performance than would ever...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. FEATFLOW icon
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    The program package FEATFLOW is both a user oriented as well as a general purpose subroutine system for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two and three space dimensions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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