CFD for hardware teams
We simulate your design and tell you how far to trust the result. On the DARPA SUBOFF submarine, we landed within 2.2% of the towing tank.
01The problem
The pictures look great. Almost nobody says how right they are. So before a decision, teams go back to the wind tunnel, with a model to build and a date to wait for.
02What we do differently
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
We measure that on a case like yours, against real test data, before we deliver. Of the 40 direct competitors we studied, none publishes it.
03The proof
DARPA SUBOFF submarine, drag at 5.93 knots.
Half a million cells. Seven minutes of solver time on a laptop, thirty minutes with setup.
Tank data: Liu and Huang, 1998
04What we simulate
Drag, lift, flow through and around the part. Supersonic too.
The noise the flow makes on its own, in jets and wakes.
How heat moves between a fluid and a solid. Electronics cooling, for example.
OpenFOAM 13 · SU2 · Ansys Fluent · ParaView
05Already computed
06Why now
In 2021, engineers from Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and Stanford wrote it for NASA: aircraft and engines certified partly through simulation, with fewer flight and ground tests. One of the conditions is that every simulation states how reliable it is.
Meanwhile, open-source solvers like OpenFOAM and SU2 run on a laptop.
The guide: Mauery et al., NASA/CR-20210015404
07How it works
Today
Send us the CAD and the decision you have to make.
About a day later
We reply in writing: whether it can be simulated, the expected error and the price. If it can’t, we tell you why.
One to three weeks
You get the result, its error against the measurement and the full setup to rerun it.
Larger test matrices, or CFD hours every month: quoted in the same reply.
08Where we’re going
Every job we close leaves a case behind: geometry, setup, error against the measurement. The next similar project starts from a method that has already been checked.
09Team
Mechanical engineer. Signs off on every simulation.
Research in computational aeroacoustics at the University of Genoa. Co-author of a 2025 study on optimal aerospike design. Led his team at the IMechE UAS Challenge: 6th of 42 in 2025, 4th of 54 in 2026.
Master’s student in aeronautical engineering.
Thesis on drag reduction with riblet surfaces, with experiments at the PRISME lab in France. Leads the team building a rocket for EuRoC, the European Rocketry Challenge.
10Send your geometry
If simulation can’t answer your question, we’ll tell you. It costs nothing.
