Compare the Top CFD Software in the USA as of November 2025

What is CFD Software in the USA?

CFD software is used to simulate fluid flow through a physical system. It uses numerical methods and algorithms to calculate complex flows involving heat transfer, turbulence and chemical reactions. CFD software is widely used in many industries, such as automotive and aerospace engineering, to identify potential design flaws before the product goes into production. Compare and read user reviews of the best CFD software in the USA currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Azore CFD

    Azore CFD

    Azore CFD

    AzoreCFD has been a trusted, cutting-edge software tool since 2007. Azore focuses on analysis, design, engineering, and on obtaining precise, and quick results. Customers use Azore for applications that include: industrial flows, aerodynamics, thermal mixing, conjugate heat transfer, gas species mixing, heating and cooling systems, external flows, and more. Azore can be used to simulate essentially any steady-state or transient fluid flow model, including problems that involve conjugate heat transfer and special transport. With flexible pre/post processing, Azore allows for arbitrary polyhedral mesh topology with several import formats supported. Built-in post-processing capabilities includes: scalar fields, pathlines, animations, residual reports, vector fields, ISO-surfaces, force & movement reports, and export for external post-processing.
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    COMSOL Multiphysics
    Simulate real-world designs, devices, and processes with multiphysics software from COMSOL. General-purpose simulation software based on advanced numerical methods. Fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities. Complete modeling workflow, from geometry to postprocessing. User-friendly tools for building and deploying simulation apps. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software brings a user interface and experience that is always the same, regardless of engineering application and physics phenomena. Add-on modules provide specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Choose from a list of LiveLink™ products to interface directly with CAD and other third-party software. Deploy simulation applications with COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™. Create physics-based models and simulation applications with this software platform.
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    Ingrid Cloud

    Ingrid Cloud

    Ingrid Cloud

    Ingrid Cloud is an online tool that automates the entire process of wind simulations. Our computational model has virtually zero human intervention, making it easy-to-use and accurate. We make CFD simple and affordable. The unique technology is based on research conducted at KTH Royal Institute of Technology for the past 15 years.
    Starting Price: $245 one-time fee
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    bramble

    bramble

    Bramble CFD

    Part of the TotalSim family, bramble is a platform for CFD simulations that can be accessed from any web-enabled device. It streamlines the pre- and post-simulation process, increasing productivity and creating consistency between simulations. Included within the platform are customised data management and analysis tools, as well as CFD support and because the software uses OpenFOAM there are no license or subscription charges. bramble offers: 1. Increased productivity 2. Reliable results 3. Customized data management 4. Cost effective simulations 5. A user-friendly platform 6. Simulations that are scalable Bramble also leases and sells all the hardware needed to run CFD simulations.
    Starting Price: £0.011 per core hour
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    SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

    SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

    Dassault Systèmes

    Simulate the fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces that are critical to the success of your designs. SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation is an intuitive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution embedded within SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that enables you to quickly and easily simulate liquid and gas flows through and around your designs to calculate product performance and capabilities. SOLIDWORKS® products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help you design products better, faster, and more cost efficiently. SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation enables you and your team to simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces that are critical to the success of your product. Companies of all sizes need integrated solutions to help them innovate and grow their business. With integrated CFD tools you can efficiently analyze the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on your projects and process multiple “what if” scenarios to help you optimize designs quickly.
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    Ansys Icepak
    Ansys Icepak is a CFD solver for electronics thermal management. It predicts airflow, temperature, and heat transfer in IC packages, PCBs, electronic assemblies/enclosures, and power electronics. Ansys Icepak provides powerful electronic cooling solutions that utilize the industry-leading Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and electronic assemblies. The Ansys Icepak CFD solver uses the Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) graphical user interface (GUI). Perform conduction, convection, and radiation conjugate heat transfer analyses, with many advanced capabilities to model laminar and turbulent flows, and species analysis including radiation and convection. Ansys’ complete PCB design solution enables you to simulate PCBs, ICs, and packages and accurately evaluate an entire system.
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    6SigmaET

    6SigmaET

    6SigmaET

    6SigmaET is an electronics thermal modeling tool that uses advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to create accurate models of electronic equipment. Designed specifically for the electronics industry, our thermal simulation software ushers in unparalleled intelligence, automation and accuracy to help you meet your requirements and overcome thermal design challenges. Since its inception in 2009, 6SigmaET has become the fastest-growing thermal simulation software in the electronics cooling market. The versatility of 6SigmaET allows you to simulate the thermal performance of electronic components: ranging from the smallest ICs to the largest, most powerful servers. Learn more about 6SigmaET's value to your industry by watching one of our videos or exploring our case studies. The complete CAD geometry of a device and PCB design can be imported into 6SigmaET for thermal analysis, reducing model creation time.
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    HyperWorks

    HyperWorks

    Altair Engineering

    HyperWorks provides easy-to-learn, effective workflows that leverage domain knowledge and increase team productivity, enabling the efficient development of today’s increasingly complex and connected products. The new HyperWorks experience was created to free engineers to move from physics to physics, domain to domain, and even create reports without ever leaving their model. Create, explore and optimize designs within HyperWorks to produce robust designs that accurately model structures, mechanisms, fluids, electromagnetics, electrical, embedded software, systems design, and manufacturing processes. The solution-specific workflows enhance a growing number of engineering processes including fatigue analysis, concept design optimization, CFD modeling, and design exploration. Each provides a meticulously designed and intuitive user interface, differentiated for each user profile while remaining consistent and easy to learn.
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    Kombyne

    Kombyne

    Kombyne

    Kombyne™ is an innovative new SaaS high-performance computing (HPC) workflow tool, initially developed for customers in the defense, automotive, and aerospace industries and academic research. It allows users to subscribe to a range of workflow solutions for HPC CFD jobs, from on-the-fly extract generation and rendering to simulation steering. Interactive monitoring and control are also available, all with minimal simulation disruption and no reliance on VTK. The need for large files is eliminated via extract workflows and real-time visualization. An in-transit workflow uses a separate process that quickly receives data from the solver code and performs visualization and analysis without interfering with the running solver. This process, called an endpoint, can directly output extracts, cutting planes or point samples for data science and can render images as well. The Endpoint can also act as a bridge to popular visualization codes.
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    SpectreUQ

    SpectreUQ

    Intelligent Light

    SpectreUQ™ builds on the mature and sophisticated DAKOTA software from Sandia National Laboratories and adds a wizard to guide the engineer through the UQ process. The details of the disciplined UQ process are handled behind the scenes. It uses a database to store results from experiments and simulations in a structured fashion and provides interactive graphing and visualization tools. Provided via an annual subscription without user count restrictions and in source code form. SpectreUQ™ unlike other methods is non-intrusive to the simulation; it runs alongside the code, not within it. Using your own HPC, you are free to evaluate hundreds of flight conditions to train built-in surrogate models. Easy to learn and use, tuned over hundreds of hours of use on actual UQ studies. The Oberkampf-Roy method is used to guide the process of ingesting experimental data and CFD results. Interactive plots of results are easy to explore and publish.
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    Fidelity CFD

    Fidelity CFD

    Cadence Design Systems

    Accelerate engineering with the industry's only intuitive, comprehensive CFD platform for multidisciplinary design and optimization. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an aspect of multiphysics system analysis that simulates the behavior of fluids and their thermodynamic properties using numerical models. Engineers use the Cadence Fidelity CFD platform design processes, such as propulsion, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and combustion, to improve and increase the efficiency of products by reducing time-consuming and expensive physical testing. Fidelity CFD platform provides an easy-to-use end-to-end CFD solution for multidisciplinary design and optimization, in applications such as aerospace, automotive, turbomachinery, and marine industries. The platform, with its streamlined workflows, massively parallel architecture, and state-of-the-art solver technology, provides unprecedented performance and accuracy and increases engineering efficiency for today’s design challenges.
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    AM PravaH

    AM PravaH

    Paanduv Applications

    AM PravaH® is a graphical user interface (GUI)-based high-performance simulation software, specifically designed for additive manufacturing. It is developed by Paanduv R&D and is a combination of parallelized computational modeling with state-of-the-art numerical methods provided by international research leaders and in-house.
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