nTop Buys cloudfluid

nTop has acquired cloudfluid, a German company specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. With the addition of cloudfluid to its technology stack, nTop now provides an advanced and complete platform for computational design, the company reports.

Cloudfluid addresses the challenge of complex meshing and lengthy run times with its GPU-native solver technology, which predicts fluid flow without creating complex conformal meshes. Coupled with nTop's implicit geometry kernel, engineers can now iterate on designs in near real time to create products.

"We are hyper-focused on building software that helps engineers go from requirements to design as fast as the latest computing processors allow—that's the power of computational design," says Brad Rothenberg, CEO of nTop. "One of the biggest bottlenecks has always been solving the physics—it takes time to mesh and converge on a solution. cloudfluid solves this by integrating directly with our implicit modeling core, bringing CFD into the iterative computational design loop."

The integration of cloudfluid's high-speed CFD with nTop's computational design platform expands applications in aerospace, defense, and turbomachinery. Engineers can explore complex geometries and optimize designs faster, advancing propulsion, aerodynamics, and thermal management systems, according to nTop. These technologies also address machine learning's data challenges. This integration helps improve manufacturing efficiency by enabling generation of high-quality simulation data for training predictive models in digital twins and design optimization, according to nTop.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.