Flow Science, Inc. proudly announces the release of its FLOW-3D 2025R1 family of products, which now includes FLOW-3D AM and FLOW-3D WELD.
This release includes several significant additions to FLOW-3D CFD simulation capabilities, which bring powerful functionality, full HPC support, and increased ease of use to all FLOW-3D users.
“With the integration of FLOW-3D AM and FLOW-3D WELD into the FLOW-3D product family, we’re putting advanced manufacturing simulation tools into the hands of practicing engineers,” said Flow Science President John Wendelbo. “These are highly accessible but also extremely accurate solutions. And with scalability and automation capabilities, you have something truly state-of-the-art.”
FLOW-3D AM 2025R1 represents a breakthrough in additive manufacturing simulation technology for accelerated material and technology commercialisation. This powerful new release brings a new, fully-integrated simulation platform for laser-based additive manufacturing processes such as powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition, enabling engineers to deliver cutting-edge manufactured products to the market. FLOW-3D AM introduces a new, unified user interface and pre-loaded process templates that simplify complex simulation setup. Users can easily move between steps in their process simulations while maintaining complete project continuity.
Harnessing the capabilities of the core FLOW-3D solver, FLOW-3D AM 2025R1 now offers support for high performance computing (HPC) platforms, accelerating simulating throughput. Additive manufacturing simulations on HPC platforms are now up to ~9x faster as compared to standard workstation configurations. This means that additive manufacturing professionals can accelerate time-to-market for critical AM applications by leveraging high-powered computational resources for faster simulation runtimes. With a dedicated FLOW-3D AM node now available in FLOW-3D (x), additive manufacturing engineers can take advantage of a powerful ecosystem approach which accelerates development cycles and enables comprehensive design space exploration, sensitivity analyses, and process optimisation with minimal manual intervention.
FLOW-3D WELD 2025R1 delivers unprecedented ease-of-use in precision welding simulation. This release introduces improved workflows with a unified user interface, simulation templates, new process automation and analysis capabilities, and significant performance improvements. FLOW-3D WELD’s brand-new user interface allows users to enable all the relevant physics models within a single application as well as define all required material properties for single or dissimilar metal welding applications. A new pre-loaded laser welding template makes simulation setup easier than ever. HPC compatibility brings unprecedented simulation speeds to laser welding simulations, while a dedicated FLOW-3D (x) node means faster time-to-market by enabling users to streamline model validation, identify process windows, conduct parameter studies, and optimise laser inputs and beam characteristics quickly and efficiently.
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