Blogs

Where panel codes stop, and how to bring CFD into your design cycle earlier

Where panel codes stop, and how to bring CFD into your design cycle earlier

October 16, 2026

What You Have to Lose by Not Doing Inverse Design

What You Have to Lose by Not Doing Inverse Design

August 28, 2026

Finding Hidden Order in Disorder: Seoul National University's Intelligent Wave Systems Laboratory Designs Non-Hermitian Scattering with Tidy3D

Finding Hidden Order in Disorder: Seoul National University's Intelligent Wave Systems Laboratory Designs Non-Hermitian Scattering with Tidy3D

August 19, 2026

Eigenmode Expansion (EME) for Fast, Cost-Efficient Modeling of Anisotropic Waveguide Bends

Eigenmode Expansion (EME) for Fast, Cost-Efficient Modeling of Anisotropic Waveguide Bends

August 11, 2026

A Computational Milestone in Full-Wave Kerr Comb Simulation Using GPU-Accelerated FDTD in Tidy3D

A Computational Milestone in Full-Wave Kerr Comb Simulation Using GPU-Accelerated FDTD in Tidy3D

Your Photonic Circuit Works in Simulation. Will It Survive the Fab?

Your Photonic Circuit Works in Simulation. Will It Survive the Fab?

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Agentic RF Design: Building Design Expertise Faster with Flex-RF

Agentic RF Design: Building Design Expertise Faster with Flex-RF

From Weeks to Days: How Vertical Aerospace Explores 10X More Designs with Wind Tunnel-Equivalent Accuracy

From Weeks to Days: How Vertical Aerospace Explores 10X More Designs with Wind Tunnel-Equivalent Accuracy

Malhar Prajapati

Packing a Design-of-Experiments Chip

Packing a Design-of-Experiments Chip

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Great Flexibilities with Tidy3D Inverse Design

Great Flexibilities with Tidy3D Inverse Design

Agentic Photonic Design: A 4-MRM CPO Link at the System Level

Agentic Photonic Design: A 4-MRM CPO Link at the System Level

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Photonic Design: Replicating an Inverse Designed Grating Coupler

Photonic Design: Replicating an Inverse Designed Grating Coupler

Agentic Photonic Design: Designing Ten Modulators Overnight with a Multi-Physics Agent in the Loop

Agentic Photonic Design: Designing Ten Modulators Overnight with a Multi-Physics Agent in the Loop

Agentic Photonic Design: Exploring Rf Transmission Line Designs for High-Speed Mach-Zehnder Modulators

Agentic Photonic Design: Exploring Rf Transmission Line Designs for High-Speed Mach-Zehnder Modulators

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

SpaceX Starship Landing Flip Simulated in 90 Minutes: High-Fidelity CFD Simulation Without Overset Meshes

SpaceX Starship Landing Flip Simulated in 90 Minutes: High-Fidelity CFD Simulation Without Overset Meshes

Malhar Prajapati

Agentic Photonic Design: Discovering Fundamental Trade-Offs in Silicon Photonic Modulators

Agentic Photonic Design: Discovering Fundamental Trade-Offs in Silicon Photonic Modulators

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Agentic Photonic Design: Electrical Routing in Photonic Chips

Agentic Photonic Design: Electrical Routing in Photonic Chips

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Agentic Photonic Design: Autonomous Splitter Design

Agentic Photonic Design: Autonomous Splitter Design

Introducing The Flexcompute Engineering Blog

Introducing The Flexcompute Engineering Blog

The Flexcompute Pre-Processing Challenge

The Flexcompute Pre-Processing Challenge

Steve Defibaugh

What Reddit Reveals About CFD: The Problem in Front of Every Simulation

What Reddit Reveals About CFD: The Problem in Front of Every Simulation

Steve Defibaugh

Why I Built a Browser-Based XFOIL (and Why We're Investing in Open Source)

Why I Built a Browser-Based XFOIL (and Why We're Investing in Open Source)

Introducing Photonic Canvas: End-to-End Photonic Design Automation

Introducing Photonic Canvas: End-to-End Photonic Design Automation

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

From Design to Foundry: How Bifrost Built a QC-ROSA Photonic Chip with PhotonForge

From Design to Foundry: How Bifrost Built a QC-ROSA Photonic Chip with PhotonForge

February 16, 2026

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

The DARPA Lift Challenge and the Best Simulation Software to Help Win

The DARPA Lift Challenge and the Best Simulation Software to Help Win

February 9, 2026

Steve Defibaugh

How to Customize Your CFD Solver Behavior With User-Defined Dynamics

How to Customize Your CFD Solver Behavior With User-Defined Dynamics

February 5, 2026

Steve Defibaugh

Why CFD is Stuck in the File Era - and how Flexcompute will streamline the Digital Thread

Why CFD is Stuck in the File Era - and how Flexcompute will streamline the Digital Thread

February 2, 2026

How To Use FlexAgent MCP Within Cursor

How To Use FlexAgent MCP Within Cursor

November 3, 2025

Emerson Melo, PhD

What Is FlexAgent MCP

What Is FlexAgent MCP

November 3, 2025

Frederik Schubert, Ph.D.

How SCINTIL Photonics Is Enabling Dense Multi-Wavelength Laser Sources for Data Centers

How SCINTIL Photonics Is Enabling Dense Multi-Wavelength Laser Sources for Data Centers

October 28, 2025

Designing the Next Generation of Drones with Flow360

Designing the Next Generation of Drones with Flow360

October 13, 2025

Steve Defibaugh

Flow360 Feature Update: Custom Variables

Flow360 Feature Update: Custom Variables

August 15, 2025

Flow360 Feature Update: Solution Interpolation on a New Mesh

Flow360 Feature Update: Solution Interpolation on a New Mesh

Learn Electromagnetic Simulation in One Minute: Quick Video Guides for the Multiphysics Solver Workbenches

Learn Electromagnetic Simulation in One Minute: Quick Video Guides for the Multiphysics Solver Workbenches

Flow360 Feature Update: Streamline Visualization

Flow360 Feature Update: Streamline Visualization

Inside Tidy3D’s Automatic Differentiation: Revolutionizing Inverse Design Workflows

Inside Tidy3D’s Automatic Differentiation: Revolutionizing Inverse Design Workflows

Two Minutes from Mesh to Mach 2

Two Minutes from Mesh to Mach 2

A Highly Efficient Spatial Light Modulator

A Highly Efficient Spatial Light Modulator

From Intuition to Precision: How Tidy3D Empowered Lumotive's Breakthrough in LiDAR 2.0

From Intuition to Precision: How Tidy3D Empowered Lumotive's Breakthrough in LiDAR 2.0

Research Highlight: Scale-invariant Dielectric Waveguide

Research Highlight: Scale-invariant Dielectric Waveguide

Enabling the Future of Coastal Travel with Flow360

Enabling the Future of Coastal Travel with Flow360

Flexcompute and NIO Redefine the Future of Aerodynamics in EVs

Flexcompute and NIO Redefine the Future of Aerodynamics in EVs

Roberto Rinaldi, PhD

Simulating a Quantum Photonic Chip Using PhotonForge

Simulating a Quantum Photonic Chip Using PhotonForge

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

The Future of Photonics Simulation Is in the Cloud

The Future of Photonics Simulation Is in the Cloud

Designing Smarter Photonic Circuits: How PhotonForge Unifies Layout and Circuit Simulation

Designing Smarter Photonic Circuits: How PhotonForge Unifies Layout and Circuit Simulation

Create Your Custom PDK for the Fabrication Process with PhotonForge

Create Your Custom PDK for the Fabrication Process with PhotonForge

Beyond the Tunnel: Designing the A250 in the Age of Instant Aerodynamics

Beyond the Tunnel: Designing the A250 in the Age of Instant Aerodynamics

Foundry-Ready Active Design with PhotonForge

Foundry-Ready Active Design with PhotonForge

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Pushing the Limits: How Flow360 Keeps Getting Faster

Pushing the Limits: How Flow360 Keeps Getting Faster

Malhar Prajapati

Introducing 3D Visualization in Tidy3D GUI

Introducing 3D Visualization in Tidy3D GUI

Emerson Melo, PhD

Flow360’s Supreme Drag Prediction with Ultra-Fast Speed at AutoCFD4

Flow360’s Supreme Drag Prediction with Ultra-Fast Speed at AutoCFD4

Roberto Rinaldi, PhD

Foundry-Ready End-to-End Photonic Active Device Design: A New Era with PhotonForge

Foundry-Ready End-to-End Photonic Active Device Design: A New Era with PhotonForge

January 28, 2025

Prashanta Kharel, PhD

Learn How to Use Inverse Design in ONE Minute

Learn How to Use Inverse Design in ONE Minute

January 25, 2025

Pumpkinseed’s Protein Sequencing Innovation with Tidy3D's Nanophotonic Simulations

Pumpkinseed’s Protein Sequencing Innovation with Tidy3D's Nanophotonic Simulations

October 25, 2024

The Simplest Tool for Inverse Design

The Simplest Tool for Inverse Design

October 15, 2024

Thermally Tuned Ring Resonator: A Comprehensive Simulation Approach

Thermally Tuned Ring Resonator: A Comprehensive Simulation Approach

October 14, 2024

Accelerating Telecommunications Innovation: FONEX Data Systems' R&D Breakthroughs with Tidy3D Acceleration

Accelerating Telecommunications Innovation: FONEX Data Systems' R&D Breakthroughs with Tidy3D Acceleration

September 10, 2024

Pixel Photonics Revamps Single-photon Detection Using Tidy3D

Pixel Photonics Revamps Single-photon Detection Using Tidy3D

September 9, 2024

Accelerating Photonic Simulations with GPUs: A New Era in Photonics Design

Accelerating Photonic Simulations with GPUs: A New Era in Photonics Design

September 5, 2024

Sculpting Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanoscale: Evelyn Hu Research Group Accelerates Nanophotonic Research with Tidy3D

Sculpting Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanoscale: Evelyn Hu Research Group Accelerates Nanophotonic Research with Tidy3D

August 25, 2024

University of Arizona’s Quantum Nano-photonics Group Pushes Boundaries in Nanophotonic Research with Tidy3D

University of Arizona’s Quantum Nano-photonics Group Pushes Boundaries in Nanophotonic Research with Tidy3D

August 10, 2024

Tidy3D Empowers the Progress in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics: A Success Story from Professor Marko Lončar’s Lab at Harvard University

Tidy3D Empowers the Progress in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics: A Success Story from Professor Marko Lončar’s Lab at Harvard University

The Dufour Aerospace AERO2 UAV: Optimal Design through High-Fidelity CFD

The Dufour Aerospace AERO2 UAV: Optimal Design through High-Fidelity CFD

February 12, 2024

FDTD Simulations in Cutting-Edge Photonics: From Novel 2D Materials to Quantum Technologies and Consumer Electronics

FDTD Simulations in Cutting-Edge Photonics: From Novel 2D Materials to Quantum Technologies and Consumer Electronics

January 10, 2024

(Part 3 of 3) CFD Simulation Methods for High-Lift Aircraft Configurations

(Part 3 of 3) CFD Simulation Methods for High-Lift Aircraft Configurations

December 2, 2023

Discover the Unmatched Advantages of Tidy3D

Discover the Unmatched Advantages of Tidy3D

November 9, 2023

(Part 2 of 3) Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft

(Part 2 of 3) Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft

October 14, 2023

Shorter is Better: How Electra Optimizes eSTOL Aircraft Design with Rapid CFD

Shorter is Better: How Electra Optimizes eSTOL Aircraft Design with Rapid CFD

Efficiency and Agility in Quantum Photonic Design: memQ's Journey with Tidy3D

Efficiency and Agility in Quantum Photonic Design: memQ's Journey with Tidy3D

(Part 1 of 3) CFD Simulation Methods for High-Lift Aircraft Configurations

(Part 1 of 3) CFD Simulation Methods for High-Lift Aircraft Configurations

December 16, 2022

(Part 2 of 3) CFD Simulation Methods for High-Lift Aircraft Configurations

(Part 2 of 3) CFD Simulation Methods for High-Lift Aircraft Configurations

December 9, 2022

Coupling User Defined Dynamics with Flow Solution

Coupling User Defined Dynamics with Flow Solution

November 18, 2022

(Part 3 of 3) Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft

(Part 3 of 3) Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft

October 21, 2022

(Part 1 of 3) Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft

(Part 1 of 3) Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft

October 7, 2022