SimWorks Alternatives

SimWorks is described as 'Free CFD software built upon established open-source simulation tools integrated into an intuitive GUI. It supports the entire CFD simulation process: CAD import, pre-processing, meshing, running and fully integrated post-processing' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to SimWorks for Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and MATLAB. The best SimWorks alternative is FEATool Multiphysics, which is free. Other great apps like SimWorks are COMSOL Multiphysics, SimScale, OpenFOAM and KRATOS Multiphysics.

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  1. FEATool Multiphysics is a fully integrated physics modeling and engineering simulation environment, featuring built-in CAD and geometry tools, pre-processing and grid generation, solvers, post-processing and visualization.

    40 FEATool Multiphysics alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MATLAB
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  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  3. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. 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
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  5. 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
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  6. CFDTool icon
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    CFDTool™ (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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. 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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  9. CONSELF icon
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    CFD - Laminar or turbulent fluid dynamics models can be selected depending on the fluid flow Reynolds number. Both steady-state and transient solvers are available. Rotating, single and multiphase flows can be analyzed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. XFlow CFD icon
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    XFlow is a next generation CFD software system that uses a proprietary state-of-the-art Lattice Boltzmann technology, and is specifically designed for companies which require accurate feedback on flow simulation, transient aerodynamics, water management and fluid-structure...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Powerful application for performing fluid flow and heat transfer simulations in MATLAB ® making CFD analysis more accessible than ever. Our Toolbox is compatible with other MATLAB® toolboxes and external software.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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