With restricted access to the workplace, CFD engineers can be excluded from their usual place of work. They find themselves without familiar tools, like the ubiquitous personal computer tucked away under the desk.

CFD Direct From the Cloud™

CFD Direct From the Cloud™ (CFDDFC®) is a turnkey system providing OpenFOAM and supporting software running in its native Linux environment. It is available as a Marketplace Product for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which operates almost half of all public cloud infrastructure. The key features of CFDDFC are:

Get Started with CFD Direct From the Cloud™

Complete OpenFOAM platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2

OpenFOAM on AWS

Customised CFD

CFD Direct can maintain customised versions of CFDDFC, providing customers a fully automated CFD solution on demand. The CFD capability can be developed over time and fully maintained to provide immunity to “that person left” syndrome. CFD can then become a standard analysis technique, run by non-experts.

Our customer, Big Ass Fans, has sales staff running hundreds of automated simulations per week from a custom analysis tool — a great success story described in the first keynote speech at AWS re:Invent 2019.


Learn Effective CFD

At the same time the CFD engineer starts using CFDDFC, they can also become more productive by learning effective CFD through OpenFOAM Training. We have unrivalled experience in OpenFOAM Training with instructor, Chris Greenshields (OpenFOAM co-founder) pioneering OpenFOAM Training since 2008 and building tools for productive CFD.

Courses are currently all scheduled as Virtual OpenFOAM Training so CFD engineers can take the training from the safety and comfort of their home. Training is delivered by video conference between the instructor and participants who work on engineering CFD problems through remote desktop with CFDDFC — giving participants a taste of CFD on AWS. All machines are accessible to the instructor who can then assist with any problems the participant experiences.

The cost of a single course could be equivalent to 1-2 weeks of payroll cost of a CFD engineer, 2% of a single core, commercial CFD licence or 1% of a 3 year research project grant.

See the OpenFOAM Training Schedule and Book

… for the Essential CFD, Applied CFD and Programming CFD courses.

Schedule/Book

Remote CFD with OpenFOAM