Flexcompute Flow360 GPU-Native CFD Simulation Platform

Flow360 Advantages

From concept to AI-driven design exploration — faster.

Flow360 moves you from concept to large-scale, AI-driven design exploration faster and more accurately than traditional CFD software. An intuitive browser interface and flexible Python API shorten the learning curve, letting you focus on running simulations, interpreting results, and exploring designs.

The cloud-native platform provides instant access from anywhere, eliminating installation steps and specialized hardware. Built on a GPU-native architecture, Flow360 delivers accelerated runtimes and immediate access to a private cluster powered by the latest high-performance GPUs — all at a cost-efficient price.

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Faster — Accelerate Design Cycles

Flow360 delivers simulation results up to 100× faster than traditional CFD tools, reducing certification cycles and time-to-market by allowing engineering teams to iterate designs in hours instead of days. From individual components to large, complex assemblies, you can rapidly evaluate concepts, optimize performance, and accelerate validation cycles.

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Larger — Scale Seamlessly

Flow360's cloud-native architecture scales simulations across hundreds of GPUs instantly. Whether analyzing unsteady aerodynamics, creating an aero database, conducting a sensitivity study, or solving multiple simulations in parallel, it handles high-fidelity workloads without bottlenecks. Supporting faster development and complete design exploration.

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Cheaper — Reduce Development Costs

Flow360 reduces testing and development costs by minimizing dependence on wind tunnel testing and expensive on-premises hardware. Flexible, usage-based pricing and faster turnaround times help avoid costly delays and rework across the design and validation process.

Application Areas

Where Flow360 is used

Aerospace Aerodynamics

Aeroacoustics

Automotive Aerodynamics

Drones

eVTOL

Hydrodynamics

Rotors and Propellers

Supersonics

Thermal Management

Wind Turbine Aerodynamics

From our customers

Why users love Flow360

"Electra cut 9 months off its aircraft design timeline using Flow360's ultra-fast CFD simulations. With rapid iteration and deep flow insights, startups like Electra bring breakthrough innovations to market faster and more cost-effectively."

Chris Courtin

Lead Engineer

"The speed and robustness of the Flow360 solver is remarkable. We appreciate Flexcompute's integrated data management environment and collaboration platform that enhances productivity and enables us to solve problems in real time."

Gene Titov

Senior Aerodynamics Engineer

"Flow360 has transformed our R&D process. The solver's speed and robustness allow us to quickly explore and iterate designs, saving us both time and money."

Gregor Veble Mikić

Head of Flight Research & Flight Physics

Flow360 Features

An advanced CFD solver, built for scale.

Flow360 is an advanced CFD solver built for high-fidelity simulation of complex fluid, thermal, and acoustics phenomena at scale. Its solver architecture, physics models, and numerical methods support both routine engineering analysis and large, high-fidelity simulation workloads. The features below highlight the core capabilities that define Flow360's performance, accuracy, and modeling depth across modern simulation workflows.

End-to-End Workflow

A unified, solver-integrated workflow from geometry and meshing through simulation execution and post-processing. Case setup, execution, and result inspection are tightly coupled to reduce handoffs between tools and minimize friction across large design studies and production runs.

Browser-Based Interface

A browser-based interface for interactive case setup, monitoring, and visualization without local software installation. Supports collaborative workflows, rapid access to results, and centralized management of large simulation campaigns.

Python API

A powerful Python API for programmatic control of case setup, parameter sweeps, batch execution, and post-processing. Enables scripting, automation, and integration into larger simulation and optimization pipelines.

High-Quality Automated Mesh Generation

A fully integrated, automated meshing pipeline designed to remove meshing as a workflow bottleneck. The solver-aware mesher handles large, complex geometries efficiently, generating high-quality boundary layers, farfield domains, and localized refinements with minimal manual setup. Supports large-scale meshes with robust memory efficiency.

GPU-Native Parallel Solver Architecture

Built natively for GPUs and large-scale parallel execution, enabling high-resolution simulations to run efficiently across many GPUs with fast turnaround for both steady and transient workloads.

Fully Compressible Navier–Stokes

Solves the fully compressible Navier–Stokes equations for viscous external flows, supporting accurate prediction of aerodynamic loads across subsonic to high-Mach regimes in steady and time-accurate simulations.

Turbulence Modeling

Supports a spectrum of modeling approaches from RANS and URANS to scale-resolving methods (DDES, ZDES, and even iLES), including SA and kωSST turbulence models, for capturing unsteady flow structures, separation dynamics, and transient aerodynamic phenomena.

Transition Modeling

Supports laminar-to-turbulent transition modeling to improve prediction of boundary layer behavior, separation onset, and surface heat transfer in regimes where transition location materially affects performance.

Conjugate Heat Transfer and Thermal Modeling

Supports convective heat transfer with isothermal and prescribed heat-flux boundary conditions, as well as conjugate heat transfer for coupled fluid–solid thermal analysis and surface temperature prediction.

Rotor Modeling

Supports multiple approaches for modeling rotating components, including actuator disk, blade element theory disk and line models, multiple reference frames, and sliding interface support. Enables efficient simulation of propellers, rotors, and rotating components while capturing unsteady interaction effects where required.

Aeroacoustics Modeling

Provides aeroacoustic prediction based on permeable and non-permeable Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings formulations, enabling far-field noise analysis from unsteady flow fields and rotating machinery.

Low-Dissipation Numerical Schemes

Implements low-dissipation spatial discretization schemes designed to achieve lower numerical dissipation in the range of higher resolved wave numbers for scale-resolving simulations.

User-Defined Dynamics and Boundary Conditions

Enables user-defined motion, dynamic boundary conditions, and custom actuation models for simulating moving components and time-dependent flow scenarios within the solver.

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