Best CFD Products in 2025

SimFlow is a powerful CFD software, focused on engineering and science.

Open Source freemium $8000.0 / Annually

ANSYS engineering simulation and 3D design software delivers product modeling solutions with unmatched scalability and a comprehensive multiphysics foundation.

COMSOL is the developer of COMSOL Multiphysics software, an interactive environment for modeling and simulating scientific and engineering problems.

OpenFOAM® - Official home of The Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Toolbox.

Open Source

Elmer is an open-source software package that solves partial differential equations. Combined with its ability to run various equations in parallel, it is an effective tool for running multiphysical simulations. Read more about elmer.

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An Easy to Use MATLAB Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD Simulation GUI Toolbox

Open Source

SimWorks is a free CFD software built upon established open-source simulation tools integrated into an intuitive GUI. It supports the entire CFD simulation process: CAD import, pre-processing, meshing, running and fully integrated post-processing

SimScale makes high-fidelity engineering simulation truly accessible. From anywhere. At any scale. In the cloud.

freemium

FEATool Multiphysics is a fully integrated Finite Element FEM CAE simulation toolbox for Matlab.

Discover XFlow, powered by Dassault Systèmes® SIMULIA, a high fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software based on Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM).

Structures and thermomechanics analysis for studies and research.

Code_Saturne solves the Navier-Stokes equations for 2D, 2D-axisymmetric and 3D flows, steady or...