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Welcome to the Flow Parametrics website.

Flow Parametrics, LLC develops and markets advanced CFD software, and provides expert consulting and outsourcing services to industry. Our flow solver, FPVortex™ is capable of computing aerodynamics and multi-phase, chemically reacting flows in and around complex geometries, ranging from rocket combustion chambers and gas turbine combustors and augmentors, to ground effects race cars and sailboat hulls and keels. The flow solver utilizes unstructured grids generated from CAD solid models, and runs in parallel on networked PC's and workstations.







The combustion simulations in the upper two rows are 3-D turbulent reacting flows at full temperature and pressure operating conditions. The aerodynamic cases on the third row are turbulent flows, with the supersonic cascade flow computed with an adapted mesh for improved shock resolution. In each case, geometry definition is obtained from a CAD solid model that is used for automated grid generation, and output into an unstructured database. The physical models used in these simulations include the standard two-equation k-ε turbulence model, and the eddy breakup combustion model. Liquid fuel injection is modeled with the Lagrangian spray droplet dynamics model with evaporation.

Advanced physical models and numerical algorithms developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) are available in FPVortex™ through a Space Act Agreement (SAA) between NASA and Flow Parametrics, LLC. Examples of advanced models include finite-rate kinetics for hydrocarbon fuels; probability density functions (PDF's) for turbulent-chemistry interactions; and advanced turbulence models including non-linear and low-Reynolds number versions of the k-ε model. The implementation of advanced models and specialized boundary conditions can be tailored directly to customer needs.




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