Using tools like CFD in a product design environment has many potential advantages.

• It empowers the design engineer, i.e. it lets you look ‘inside’ your product to visualize the flow and heat – designing better products
• Improve product performance, functionality and reliability
• Reduce physical prototyping and production costs
• Minimize risk of making design mistakes
• Save both time and money by reducing design times and speeding up workflow

Typical Product Design application areas include:

• ANY component involving the flow of fluid and/or heat transfer
• Medical Devices
• Appliances
• HVAC Diffusers, Grilles etc.
• Valves and Dampers (Flow Coefficient, Noise etc.)
• Electronics Cooling
• Pumps and Fans (Performance, Cavitation, etc.)
• Compressors and Turbines
• Heat Exchanger e.g. Radiators
• Aerodynamic Forces on structures/components
• Boundary conditions to determine Thermal Stress with FEA