Nanotech 2003 Exhibitor

Flow Science, Inc.

Web site: www.flow3d.com

FLOW-3D^©, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package from Flow Science, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.flow3d.com), is a powerful and versatile program. Because it has a large variety of physical models, FLOW-3D^© users can simulate a very wide range of physical phenomena associated with MEMS-scale problems. Laboratory experiments can be challenging to set up, costly to carry out, and difficult to replicate. Moreover, when dealing with MEMS-scale problems, where the dimensions are measured in microns, the ability to actually view the experimental results may be very limited. Experiments with FLOW-3D^© can be set up in minutes and solutions to most free-surface flow problems can be had in a matter of hours - and there is no problem visualizing the results. Most important, numerical solutions with FLOW-3D^© are remarkably accurate when compared to theoretical and experimental work. Especially for problems with discontinuous and rapidly varied flows, FLOW-3D^© can provide accurate, reliable simulations.