Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform
CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics, is a simulation-based technique used to study how fluids move and interact with their environment, including changes in temperature and pressure.
By applying advanced modeling tools like the Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform, engineers can analyze and refine systems involving airflow, water dynamics, engine performance, and heat generation. This digital approach streamlines development by cutting down on the reliance on traditional testing methods, saving both time and resources.
The Fidelity CFD Platform offers a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for fluid dynamics simulation, supporting complex design and optimization tasks across industries like aerospace, automotive, marine, and turbomachinery. Its modern architecture, advanced solvers, and efficient workflows enable high-speed, accurate simulations—helping engineers tackle modern design problems with greater productivity and precision.
Products
Fidelity CFD
Fidelity CFD delivers a unified platform that streamlines design, analysis, and optimization for complex fluid-flow challenges. Supporting CHT, FSI, multiphase physics, and aeroacoustics, it ensures accurate, fast results. Tailor this advanced environment to address the specific simulation demands of your design and verification process today.
Features
- Multidisciplinary analysis supports heat transfer, structural coupling, multiphase effects, and aeroacoustics
- End-to-end solution provides comprehensive CFD tools across engineering application needs
- Intuitive interface and automation simplify workflows using Python API integration
- Customizable workflows reduce complexity using autoseal technology and industry templates
- Iterative flow analysis segments designs and supports tailored GUI adjustments
Fidelity LES Solver
Fidelity LES is a high-fidelity CFD solver that broadens practical LES use across aeroacoustics, aerodynamics, combustion, heat transfer, and multiphase challenges. Leveraging CPUs and GPUs, it cuts simulation time dramatically while minimizing memory use and scaling efficiently to hundreds of GPUs for demanding engineering applications.
Features
- Scalable Voronoi meshing and advanced LES solvers enable complex simulations
- GPU acceleration enables massive simulations with high-speed performance and accuracy
- Robust analysis tools handle large datasets using dimensional reduction techniques
- Acoustic predictions use Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings formulation for reliable far-field evaluation
- Modal decomposition and imaging provide rapid computation and thorough analysis
Fidelity Fine Design3D
Cadence Fidelity Fine Design3D accelerates optimal design discovery by uniting machine-learning-driven optimization with uncertainty quantification. Supporting multidisciplinary workflows, smart turbomachinery parameterization, and advanced data mining, it provides a streamlined, comprehensive solution for efficient, reliable CFD design optimization across complex engineering applications to improve performance outcomes.
Features
- Comprehensive MDO supports reliability, noise, manufacturing costs across off-design conditions
- Smart parametrization uses self-organizing maps enabling deeper turbomachinery design insights
- Advanced DoE and sampling techniques accelerate efficient design space exploration
- Surrogate models like Kriging and RBF networks enhance optimization performance
- Integration ensures compatibility while addressing uncertainties affecting overall system performance
Fidelity Flow for Fluids and Thermal
Cadence Fidelity Flow provides fast, accurate solutions for aerodynamic, CHT, FSI, and multiphysics challenges. Its optimized density- and pressure-based solvers handle high-speed and thermal flows, while OpenLabs customization, nonlinear harmonic methods, and advanced combustion and cavitation models enable efficient, robust simulation of demanding engineering problems
Features
- Supports aerodynamics through hypersonic flows with efficient conjugate heat-transfer models
- Provides FSI, cavitation, combustion strategies for accurate multiscale multiphysics simulations
- Resolves unsteady flows using DES and multispecies Lagrangian particle models
- Achieves high-speed turnaround via CPU scaling and extensive GPU-based optimization
- Enables customization through OpenLabs with flexible routines enhancing simulation performance
Fidelity Flow for Turbomachinery
Backed by 25+ years of rotating-machinery expertise, Fidelity Flow for Turbomachinery offers a full suite — from 1D and 3D design to meshing, CFD, and optimization. Tackle compressors, turbines, or propellers with unmatched accuracy and usability, empowering your team to meet even complex turbomachinery engineering demands.
Features
- Couples 1D-to-3D turbomachinery design, meshing, CFD, and optimization tasks effectively
- Structured and unstructured meshing ensures optimal solutions using Fidelity Automesh
- High-speed turnaround achieved with CPU scaling, GPU optimization, and CPUBooster
- Advanced physics include cavitation, combustion, heat transfer, and fluid-structure interaction
- Automation NLH acceleration, scripting, and scaling deliver comprehensive CFD workflows
Fidelity Fine Marine
Cadence Fine Marine Solver offers advanced CFD for naval architects and marine engineers, handling resistance, propulsion, and wind studies with precision and speed. Serving as a virtual towing tank, it streamlines design by simulating mono- and multi-fluid flows for vessels from tankers to yachts, hydrofoils, and propellers.
Features
- Virtual towing tanks simulate freesurface flows accurately for marine assessments
- Helps meet IMO emission regulations through vessel efficiency and performance
- Adaptive grid refinement supports deformations, sliding grids, and overset capabilities
- Automated C-Wizard setup accelerates resistance, seakeeping, propulsion, and planing analyses
- Simulate maneuvers and wind studies replacing physical wind tunnel tests
Fidelity Automesh
Fidelity Automesh revolutionizes preprocessing by converting complex CAD or STL geometries into high-quality CFD meshes in near real time. Unifying all meshing tools in one workflow, it reduces week-long manual efforts to under a day, delivering flexible, robust structured–unstructured meshing for intricate internal or external shapes.
Features
- Converts CAD or STL into watertight geometries using automated meshing
- Supports structured and unstructured meshing with flexible layers for applications
- Provides CAD cleaning, edge capturing, and AutoSeal for resolving gaps
- Enables scalable Voronoi meshing producing high-quality grids for complex geometries
- Offers Python scripting, batch processing and tools for efficient workflows
Fidelity Pointwise for CFD Meshing
Cadence Fidelity Pointwise delivers high-fidelity fluid-domain meshing with industry-leading techniques that streamline one of CFD’s most time-consuming stages. It integrates smoothly into any simulation workflow, producing top-quality, solver-compatible meshes that enhance accuracy, reliability, and efficiency across a wide range of engineering applications.
Features
- Supports hybrid overset high-order meshes for massive explorative computational studies
- Ensures high-quality meshes across workflows using streamlined import and export
- Customizable scripting and templates provide flexible meshing solutions inside Fidelity
- Repairs geometry models including NURBS scans and digital source formats
- Exports mesh types for many CFD solvers with engineering support
Millenium M1
The Millennium M1 CFD Supercomputer delivers the first fully turnkey CFD solution, using GPU-accelerated, scalable HPC hardware to overcome traditional performance limits. It dramatically cuts simulation time from days to hours, empowering aerospace, automotive, power-generation, and turbomachinery teams with unprecedented speed, efficiency, and high-fidelity computational power.
Features
- GPU acceleration delivers tenfold throughput gains with reduced energy use
- Turnkey HPC solution integrates Fidelity software with hardware for CFD
- Scalable architecture and GPU solvers provide performance for demanding simulations
- Cloud or on-premise deployments offer supercomputing options for CFD workloads
- High-fidelity LES and scaling support aerodynamic and multiphysics applications effectively
