Simulation made simple.
Powered by airFlow.
The world's first CFD application for macOS that empowers you to go from CAD to critical insights in minutes, all on your local machine.
Visualize, optimize, innovate.
The Three Pillars of airFlow
Design. Iterate. Instantly.
Transform your ideas into testable models. Import STL designs into a fluid, CAD-like viewport. Configure your simulation environment with real-time feedback, assigning fluid properties and boundary conditions with ease. Get immediate visual clarity, accelerating your design cycle.
- — Real-time 3D interaction
- — Automated domain setup
- — Flexible fluid selection
Simulate. Securely. On Your Mac.
Leverage the full power of your macOS workstation. airFlow generates high-quality volume meshes and executes industry-standard CFD solves (OpenFOAM's simpleFoam) directly on your CPU. Experience fast, private simulations with live convergence tracking, keeping you in control.
- — Integrated OpenFOAM solver
- — Optimized mesh generation
- — Live performance monitoring
Analyze. Visualize. Optimize.
Go beyond raw data. Explore complex flow physics with dynamic, movable slice-planes revealing velocity and pressure contours. Trace particle streamlines to understand flow patterns and gain actionable insights with precise lift and drag coefficient evaluations. See the unseen, make data-driven decisions, and optimize your designs.
- — Movable slice contours
- — Streamline visualization
- — Lift & drag (Cd/Cl) estimations
The Future of Design on macOS. Unfolding Now.
At airFlow, we're relentlessly innovating to empower your design process. Our roadmap is packed with advanced features designed to push the boundaries of what's possible on macOS. Here's a glimpse into the powerful capabilities coming soon to airFlow:
STEP & OBJ Imports
Seamless CAD Integration: Import native boundary solids from your CAD apps directly, eliminating manual STL conversions and streamlining your workflow.
Parametric AoA Sweeps
Optimize Performance: Automatically test designs across a range of angles of attack to precisely trace stall margins and fine-tune aerodynamic efficiency.
Transient Solving
Dynamic Flow Analysis: Simulate time-dependent turbulent flow fields to understand transient aerodynamic responses and complex fluid interactions.
Multi-Core Execution
Accelerated Simulations: Distribute domain partitions across multiple local CPU cores for dramatically faster solves, maximizing your productivity.
Cp Distribution Plots
Visualize Aerodynamic Forces: Plot pressure coefficient distributions across chord lengths to isolate lift vectors, understand pressure centers, and predict stall onset.
Vector Field Overlays
Enhanced Flow Visualization: Superimpose dynamic vector arrow overlays on 3D slice planes for intuitive understanding of directional velocity magnitudes and flow patterns.
Heat Transfer (CHT)
Thermal Performance Insights: Run conjugate heat transfer simulations to analyze convection and thermal boundaries within solids and fluids, optimizing thermal management.
Parametric CFD Studies
Automated Design Exploration: Autonomously batch run sweeps across dimensional geometries like wing spans or fuselage shapes, discovering optimal designs with minimal effort.
Frequently Answered Questions
No. airFlow simulation is a commercial desktop utility distributed under a lifetime license model. All meshing, solving, and post-processing computations happen locally on your hardware with no subscription fees or cloud dependencies.
No. The application bundles all solver executables and mesh tools. Everything runs locally out of the box with no configuration path variables or docker container configurations required.
Currently, airFlow simulation supports STL file imports. Other CAD standards like STEP and OBJ are on our active product roadmap.
No. The application is designed strictly for local single-core solves on your macOS workstation. Running solves in the cloud or distributing them across multiple local cores are features planned for future updates.
Instead of expensive annual seat subscriptions or cloud-only SaaS queues, airFlow simulation gives you a lightweight, secure local tool. Your design files and solver log directories never leave your local workspace.
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