Compare the Top CFD Software in Germany as of November 2025

What is CFD Software in Germany?

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 Germany 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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    Orbital Stack

    Orbital Stack

    Orbital Stack

    Orbital Stack is an AI and CFD web-based software that provides earlier qualitative guidance, comparing a large number of design options while highlighting any potential wind and thermal comfort red flags. It allows for the realization of a variety of climate-conscious, high-performance developments not previously feasible due to cost and/or time constraints associated with traditional studies. Orbital Stack is the first digital climate-analysis tool built by global leaders in wind and microclimate engineering using real wind tunnel data. It is truly a game-changer for the architecture and building design sector, offering our clients direct access to wind comfort and safety analysis, thermal comfort and shadowing analysis, and cladding pressure simulations. This means architects can run their own wind simulations and quickly understand the climate impacts of their proposed building designs from the start, making decisions that result in higher performing and more resilient projects.
    Starting Price: $0
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    SimScale

    SimScale

    SimScale

    SimScale is a cloud-based web application that plays a key part in simulation software for many kinds of industries. The platform allows the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and Thermal Simulation. It also offers 3D simulation, continuous modeling, and motion & dynamic modeling.
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    Pipe Flow Calculations

    Pipe Flow Calculations

    Zoran Savovic PR Application Services

    Fast & Accurate Fluid Flow Calculations. Pipe Flow Calculator is essential for engineers, students, and professionals working with fluid dynamics. With 18 desktop calculators, it solves simple and complex fluid flow problems in under a minute—GUARANTEED. Why Choose Pipe Flow Calculator? ✅ Easy to Use – Just enter values and get instant results. ✅ Trusted Worldwide – Used daily by thousands of professionals. ✅ Reliable & Updated – Bug fixes within 1-2 days. ✅ Transparent Calculations – All formulas are provided. Key Features ✔️ Switch between metric and imperial units. ✔️ Select pipes, materials, and fluids from predefined lists. ✔️ Export results to Excel & Word, save, print, and continue where you left off. ✔️ Copy/paste full calculation reports. Available Calculators 🔹 Pressure Drop, Pipe Diameter, Pump Performance, Reynolds Number 🔹 Orifice Plate, Venturi Tube, Nozzle, Prandtl Probe 🔹 Control Valve, Gas Flow, LPG, Thermal Energy
    Starting Price: $9.95/month
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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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    Tecplot 360
    Make Better Decisions with Tecplot 360, the most complete CFD Post processor. More CFD simulations are being run, grid sizes are getting larger, and data sets are being stored remotely. It’s essential that you have the right tools to handle large data sets, automate workflows, and visualize parametric results. Tecplot 360 helps you spend less time waiting and more time discovering. Integrate XY, 2D & 3D plots and get them looking exactly the way you want. Communicate your results with brilliant images and animations. Automate the boring stuff with PyTecplot Python scripting. Never miss a result when analyzing parametric data with Chorus. Securely access large, remote data with SZL-Server client-server. Load Tecplot, FLUENT, PLot3D, CGNS, OpenFOAM, FVCOM, VTU data and 22 other CFD, FEA, structural analysis, and industry-standard data formats. Report and compare solutions in a multi-frame environment with multiple pages.
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    Autodesk CFD
    Autodesk CFD is a computational fluid dynamics simulation software that engineers and analysts use to intelligently predict how liquids and gases will perform. Autodesk CFD helps to minimize the need for physical prototypes while providing deeper insight into fluid flow design performance. Autodesk CFD provides engineers with a range of powerful tools for system design optimization. Fluid flow and free surface movement. Thermal management for electronics cooling. BIM integration for occupant comfort of HVAC in AEC and MEP. The Application Programming Interface (API) and scripting functions expand the base capabilities of Autodesk CFD through the Decision Center’s customization and automation of common tasks. In addition, the Decision Center automates system design comparisons to speed up design-based decision making.
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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 Sherlock
    Ansys Sherlock is the only reliability physics-based electronics design tool that provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early stage design. Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. Sherlock bypasses the ‘test-fail-fix-repeat’ cycle by empowering designers to accurately model silicon–metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and assemblies to predict failure risks due to thermal, mechanical and manufacturing stressors--all before prototype. With embedded libraries containing over 500,000 parts, Sherlock rapidly converts electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) files into computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) models. Each model contains accurate geometries, material properties and translates stress information.
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    Ansys CFX
    Known for its extreme robustness, CFX is the gold standard CFD software when it comes to turbomachinery applications. Both solver and models are wrapped in a modern, intuitive, and flexible GUI, with extensive capabilities for customization and automation using session files, scripting and a powerful expression language. Highly scalable high-performance computing will help speed up simulations including pumps, fans, compressors and turbines. New manufacturing methods have opened the door to more effective turbine cooling channel geometries. The new geometries will lead to better performance and efficiency but are more complex. To achieve highly accurate results, a team of Purdue engineers turned to Ansys CFX. The engineers executed key computations with little turnaround time. With the extra time, they could perform more in-depth comparisons and run further simulations to fully optimize their product.
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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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    CF-MESH+

    CF-MESH+

    Creative Fields Holding, Ltd.

    CF-MESH+ is the latest CFD meshing software version developed by Creative Fields. It comprises advanced meshing workflows with an easy-to-use front-end interface allowing for superior user experience and efficiency. It features a powerful set of tools and functionalities for generating quality CFD meshes in arbitrary complex geometries encountered within the industry. The software features a degree of robustness that will help you enhance your productivity and get a competitive advantage in your simulation efforts.
    Starting Price: $500
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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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    SimFlow

    SimFlow

    SIMFLOW Technologies

    SimFlow is a desktop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis software for Windows and Linux OS. It is based on OpenFOAM libraries, acting like an OpenFOAM GUI. It is a professional CAE package for engineers offering fully-featured 3D simulations. SimFlow is a powerful general-purpose CFD software. It combines an intuitive graphical user interface with the advantages of the open-source OpenFOAM® libraries. Download SimFlow and use it for free in an evaluation mode to solve the most complex problems you face as an engineer, scientist or student. Maybe you use CFD software on a daily basis or maybe just want to start your adventure. Install SimFlow, rediscover the CFD world without any time limit and enjoy powerful fluid simulation software.
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    CAESIM

    CAESIM

    Adaptive Research

    Adaptive Research is pleased to announce the immediate release of the CAESIM 2024 simulation platform, providing advanced computational fluid dynamics modeling with multi-physics capabilities. The new software release provides new tools and capabilities that optimize the modeling process and provide the CFD engineer with fast simulation solutions.
    Starting Price: $1295/annual standard
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