Universitat Politècnica de València.

Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 València (Spain)

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CMT – CLEAN MOBILITY & THERMOFLUIDS
Address: Edificio 6D, Universitat Politècnica de València
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Phone: +34963877650
e-mail: cmt@mot.upv.es
Web: www.cmt.upv.es

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 Founded in 1968

VALENCIA

Divisions:
14 Technical Faculties | 42 Departments |
20 Research Institutes

Location: UPV Figures

3 Campuses: Valencia/Alcoy/Gandía |
680.000 m 2

Figures:
29.000 Students |
2.500 Academic/Research Staff |
1.900 Supporting Staff

Annual Budget:
375 M €

Founded in 1979

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 CMT lecturing activities at UPV (I)

Mechanical Aerospace
Engineering Engineering
Engineering 160 students/year 100 students/year
Degrees
Energy Industrial
Engineering Engineering
75 students/year 300 students/year

 Thermodynamics  Aerodynamics  IC Engines

 Experimental Techniques
 Heat Transfer  Combustion  Propulsion
 Maintenance Engineering
 Fluid Mechanics  Turbo-machinery  Noise Control
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 CMT lecturing activities at UPV (II)

Industrial Aeronautical
Engineering Engineering
Master Degrees 300 students/year 100 students/year

Maintenance Computer Fluid

Engineering Dynamics
30 students/year 30 students/year

 Thermodynamics  Aerodynamics  IC Engines

 Experimental Techniques
 Heat Transfer  Combustion  Propulsion
 Maintenance Engineering
 Fluid Mechanics  Turbo-machinery  Noise Control
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 CMT Post-Graduate program

MSc Degree PhD Program

Power Plants for Sustainable

Propulsion in Transport Systems
Mobility (MUSPMS)
15 students/year 15 PhD/year

EUR-ACE® European Quality Label from Quality and Excellence Awards from Spanish
European Network for Accreditation of Academic Authorities since 2004.
Engineering Education since 2014.

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Motivation and scope for R+D+i (I)
SCOPE

 Complex thermo- and fluid-dynamic

processes applied to automotive,
aeronautical, railway, marine, civil, power
generation, industrial and biomedical….
sectors.

MOTIVATION / MISSION

 Comprehension of relevant phenomena in

thermo-fluid dynamics.
 Synthesis of expertise leading to
development and innovation.
 Transfer and dissemination of knowledge.

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Motivation and scope for R+D+i (II)
OBJECTIVE

Identify and solve current / actual

problems, for instance:

 System/Process efficiency
increase and GHG emission
reduction.
 Gaseous pollutants and
particulate emissions
control/reduction.
 Noise control and sound quality
improvement.
 System reliability and operational
safety increase.
 Etc.

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R+D Organization

Direction Board Degree

Management
Technical Scientific Academic MSc

Adm. Comp.
Service PhD Progr.

Scient. Comp.
Facilities

Lab. Exp. Thermo-Fluid

Facilities Dynamics

Non-Reactive Flow

CFD
Reactive Flow

Optical Transversal Basic Thermal Management

Techniques Competences Competences

Control and Acoustics

Optimization
Tribology

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 New R+D+i topics at CMT
 Power plant hybridization. Control
strategies and optimization.
 xEVs thermal issues, thermal
management.
 Battery thermal runaway.
 xEVs acoustic issues.
 Fuel cell power plants.
 Continuous combustion process (GT).
 Hydrogen combustion:
continuous/discontinuous.
 e-fuels, oxy-fuels, and ammonia
combustion process.
 CO2 neutral oxy-fuel combustion.
 Aerodynamics (Internal /External).
 CFD / Flow-Structure Interaction (FSI).
 Biomedicine.

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Founded
in 1968

Founded
in 1979

STAFF

60 25 5 8 70
Faculty / Testing IT Staff Administration MSc and PhD
Researchers Engineers Students

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ECONOMIC FIGURES

 Total Annual Budget: 25.00 M €

 Research Income 2023: 8.00 M €

PhD THESES R + D PROJECTS

225 65 815 70

COMPLETED IN PROGRESS COMPLETED IN PROGRESS

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INCOME DISTRIBUTION YbY

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PUBLICATIONS/PATENTS

• Books and Monographs:

• -192-

• Papers in journals:
• -941-

• Congress Contributions:
• -1048-

• International Patents:
• -15-

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INVESTMENT

Building Equipment

12 M€ 60 M€

BUILT SURFACE TOTAL: 12.100 m2

Offices 6D Common Services 6D Laboratories 5K/6D/8P New Laboratory (2022) 8R

2.800 m2 500 m2 5.800 m2 3.000 m2

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CMT-MOTORES TÉRMICOS LOCATIONS AT UPV

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EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES

 22 Power plant test cells (5-500

kW)
 25 Experimental environments:
 Flow test rigs/wind tunnels
 Impulse test rig
 Anechoic chamber
 Altimetry climatic chamber
 Mobile altimetry simulator
 Turbocharger test rigs
 Energy/thermal test rigs
 Injection/spray test rigs
 Rapid compression machine
 Continuous combustion chamber
 Battery thermal runaway test rigs
 ………….

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Spray/ flam e CH*

KEY INSTRUMENTATION

 8 Single-cylinder research engines

 Optical engines

 Transient test dynamometers

 HS data acquisition systems

 Exhaust gas analysers

 Particulate matter analysers

 High-speed/Intensified cameras

 Continuous/pulsed laser sources

 PDA and LDA systems

 LIF,LII, KL and PIV systems

 ………….

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EXPERIMENTAL
NEW FACILITIES
EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES

 Hybrid power plant test bench.

 H2 generation hydrolyser.
 Fuel cell test bench.
 Fuel cell automotive platform.
 Battery thermal issues /
runaway test facilities.
 Oxy-fuel combustion single
cylinder engine.
 H2 combustion single cylinder
engines.
 Pressurized continuous burner
(multi-fuel).
 Large wind tunnel.

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COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES

Own Resources Shared HPC Resources

• 3 Professors
Personnel

• 8 Assoc. Professors
• 1 CAE Engineer
• 20 PhD Students
• 20 BsC/MsC Students

CFD resources at
Hardware

• LINUX Multi-Core Cluster (1536 • RIGEL / UPV (1120 cores / 2.5Gb

cores / 7TB RAM / 60TB HD) RAM/core)
CMT
• Local W.S. (30 x 24 cores) • RES (Spanish HPC Network) / 14
HPC nodes

• ANSYS – CFD
• StarCCM+
Software

• CONVERGE
• OPENFOAM
• 1D models (VeMOD, AMESIM,
GT-Power, ..)

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 Research strategy and methodology
Basic research to improve
understanding of the
relevant physical / chemical
processes involved.
Knowledge generation.
(TRL 1,2,3)
Accurate measurements
obtained with “state of
the art” experimental
facilities.
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Applied studies to improve
system behaviour and aid
system development and
innovation. Knowledge
Transfer. (TRL 4,5,6)
In-house developed, open or
commercial CFD modelling
software, together with the
analysis of the physical
processes, provides time and
cost-effective results (1D, RANS,
LES, DNS).
 Past involvement in EU research projects

6 14 5 10
EU Projects in FP3 and FP4 EU Projects in FP7 (incl. Clean EU Projects in H2020 + 1
EU Projects in FP5 and FP6
Sky) + 1 COMET K2 (FFG) LEC TU Graz (A)

1992 1998 2002 2006 2015 2022

FP3/4 FP5 FP6 FP7 H2020

DIME ECO-ENGINES COMETNANO REWARD

JOULE I/II
CRICE NICE POWERFUL GASON
D.I. SPRAYS
PICE GREEN CLEAN-RD EAGLE
INFORMATEX
D-ISELE IPSY VECOM DIEPER
DIFUSO
PARTSIZE ELECFILTER COLHD
IGIS
D-CYCLE VIRT. VEHICLE FIREEXTINCTION
ECOBUS ESTIMATE
ARTEMIS VISION-XEV
VISPER ENERXICO
AMPA SACOC

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 Involvement in EU research projects - Timeline

HEUROPE (2021-27)
EARPA GreenCars – EGVIA – 2Zero
CleanSky JU – CS2 - CA
FCJU - HER - BATT

15 Proposals
6 Projects
H2020 (2014-20)

FP7 (2007-13)
24 Proposals
FP5 (1998-2002) 35 Proposals

5 Projects
15 Proposals 10 Projects
11 Projects

FP6 (2002-06)
4 Proposals
4 Projects
FP4 (1994-98)
6 Proposals
5 Projects
FP3 (1990-94)
FP2 (1987-91)

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 Current participation in EU funded projects (I)

Project Partners

GIGAGREEN: Developing green cell manufacturing processes. PoliTo, ABEE, SOLVIONIC, Nanomakers, Johnson Matthey,
(2022-2024) SINTEF, INEGI, CIC Energigune, CMT

PULSELION: Pulsed laser deposition technology for solid state battery RISE, Avesta, CRF, Univ. Ljubljani, CNRSU, Univ. Jules
manufacturing. Verne, Pulsedeon, CIC Energigune, CMT, AIT, Univ. Porto,
(2022-2025) INEGI, PNO Innovation, Techconcepts, Ikerlan

ALL IN ZERO: Renewable and flexible fuel power generation

technology enabling the multi-sectorial decarbonization with zero CMT, CSIC, Forschungszentrum Julich , AVL
emissions.
(2022-2026)

NEXTCELL: Li-ion battery gellified cells for high capacity and high
voltage applications in automobiles. FEV, SOLVAY, Johnson Matthey, VARTA, CRF, CMT
(2023-2026)

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 Current participation in EU funded projects (II)

Project Partners

REBELION: Research and development of a highly automated and safe

streamlined process for increased lithium-ion battery repurposing and CMT, Accurec-Recycling GmBH, Sig de Raee y Pilas SL,
recycling. Nottingham Trent University, Ona Product SL, UNED,
(2023-2026) University of Birmingham, Fondazione Icons, Erion Energy

ABE Engineering, GVS, Fraunhofer, Mondragon Eskola

EXTENDED: Next generation of multifunctional, modular and scalable
Politeknikoa, Techconcepts, BMZ, CMT, Bozankaya
solid state batteries system.
Otomotiv, Inegi, TH Ingolstadt, CEA, Flanders Make,
(2023-2026)
IKERLAN, LUMENCY, BVBA BE, ….

MEASURED: Advanced MEAs ensuring high-efficiency HDV. Advent Technologies, U. Stuttgart, TU Graz, CMT,AVL,
(2023-2026) Honeywell, U. Ljubljana

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 Current participation in projects with national funding (I)

Project Subject
HYDROGEN ROLE IN FLAME STABILISATION AND LOW EMISSIONS IN COMBUSTORS FOR
AHEAD (2021-2024) AERONAUTICAL TURBO ENGINES

MATS (2021-2024) INTEGRATION OF MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AFTER TREATMENT DEVICES IN HYBRID VEHICLES

OMCUT-HEVS (2021- MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL FOR URBAN ; HYBRID VEHICLES BY

2024) USING CONTEXT OPERATIONAL DATA

OPTIMUM MANAGEMENT OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES POWERED BY HYDROGEN FUEL

HYDRONE (2021-2024) CELLS AND DISTRIBUTED PROPULSION

PERSONALIZED DIGITAL CARDIAC TWINS TO ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL

DIDIMO (2021-2024)
DEVICES AND CARDIAC ANTIARRHYTHMIC TREATMENTS

POTENTIAL OF SI AND CI ENGINES POWERED BY BIOFUELS AND HYDROGEN OBTAINED

BIOH2FUEL (2022-2024)
FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES

DIGIAMMONIA (2022- ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL OF AN AMMONIA ENGINE AND OXYGEN-ENRICHED AIR FOR
2024) THE DECARBONIZATION OF MARINE PROPULSION

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 Current participation in projects with national funding (II)

Project Subject
PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF THE VENTING PROCESS
EVEREST (2022-2024)
DURING THE THERMAL RUNAWAY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MICROMIXERS FOR STABLE HYDROGEN COMBUSTION IN ZERO-
MIXSHY (2022-2024)
EMISSION AVIATION.

DIGITAL MODELS FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND REDUCTION OF NOISE POLLUTION

MODERA (2022-2024)
GENERATED BY UAS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

SAFLOW-BREAK (2022- MODELLING OF THE ATOMIZATION PROCESS OF SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL FOR LOW
2024) EMISSIONS.

GENERATION OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR PREDICTION OF AGING AND THERMAL

CLIMATE (2022-2024)
STABILITY OF BATTERIES FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES

DESIGN OF ADVANCED CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW GENERATION OF FUEL CELL
DIVERGENT (2022-2024)
TRUCKS, PROMOTING THE DECARBONIZATION OF THE TRANSPORT SECTOR

COOLWASTE (2022-2024) HYBRID EJECTION CYCLE COOLING WITH WASTE HEAT SOURCES

GENTILE (2022-2024) INTELLIGENT THERMAL MANAGEMENT FOR HIGHLY ELECTRIFIED CONNECTED VEHICLES

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 Current participation in projects with national funding (III)

Project Subject
SHYGAS (2022-2025) INTEGRATION OF MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AFTER TREATMENT DEVICES IN HYBRID VEHICLES

CLEANERGY MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL FOR URBAN ; HYBRID VEHICLES BY

(2022-2025) USING CONTEXT OPERATIONAL DATA

CLEAN-BREATHE BOOSTING ELECTRICAL VEHICLES SAFETY THROUGH THE BATTERY THERMAL RUNAWAY
(2022-2025) PREDICTION

TRACY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THERMAL RUNAWAY PHENOMENON IN LITHIUM-ION

(2022-2025) BATTERIES FOR ELECTRIC MOBILITY

CONTRASTA-H2 UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROL OF THERMOACOUSTIC INSTABILITIES IN HYDROGEN

(2021-2025) PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE AVIATION

ENOLA (2023-2026) NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION TO REDUCE NOISE POLLUTION FROM UAVS

ScaLVAD (2023-2026) MINIATUARIZED, ULTRA-EFFICIENT AND SCALABLE VENTRICULAR ASSISTMENT DEVICE

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 Current participation in projects with regional funding

Project Subject
INVESTIGACIÓN EN ALMACENAMIENTO DE ALTAS PRESTACIONES PARA MOVILIDAD
MODALT (2022-2024) ELÉCTRICA PESADA DE ALTA POTENCIA

DEVOCO2C (2022-2025) DEVELOPMENT OF AN OXY-COMBUSTION PROPULSION PLANT WITH CO2 CAPTURE

DEFINITION OF FUEL CELL POWERTRAIN ARCHITECTURES FOR THE DECARBONIZATION

DEFIANCE (2022-2025) OF ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT SUPPORTING THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY DEPLOYMENT

DIALOGUE (2023-2026) DESIGN OF EFFICIENT AND STABLE LOW-NOX HYDROGEN BURNERS

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 Past research partnerships with the industry

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 Current research partnerships with the Industry

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 Partnership with academic&research institutions (I)

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 Partnership with academic&research institutions (II)

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 Strengths of the collaboration between CMT and the Industry
 Aptitude to identify industry needs and to assume their specific requirements.
 Flexibility for adapting research tools and methodologies to specific and changing project objectives.
 Possibility of organising dedicated research teams and creating synergies with experts from different
fields (inside and outside CMT).
 Experience in networking and strong links with the scientific community.
 Motivation for generating deep knowledge and transferring whole information obtained.
 Availability or procurement of state-of-the-art experimental and modelling tools.
 Joint cooperation and teamwork of skilled, adaptable and highly motivated research staff.

PARTNERSHIP

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 Thanks for your attention!

www.cmt.upv.es
cmt@mot.upv.es

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DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC FUNDING
2021 2022

2023

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 Combustion
RESEARCH TOPICS TOOLS RESULTS

• Combustion • Optical engines

• Conventional • Hot spray rig
• Advanced • Quartz piston
• Pollutant control • Single-cylinder
research engines
• CO2 reduction
• HSDI
• Downsizing
• HDDI
• Downspeeding
• Exhaust emissions
• Dual-fuel strategies
• Gaseous
• New hardware • Soot/PM
• FIS / VVA
• Multi-cylinder engine
• CFD
• Modelling
• Reacting spray
• 1D
• Bowl design
• 3D

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 Injection
RESEARCH TOPICS TOOLS RESULTS

• Fuel properties • Silicone models

• Diesel/gasoline • Injection rate
• Biofuels
• Spray momentum

• Injection systems
• Spray development
• Nitrogen rig
• Nozzle technology • SF6 rig
• Coking • PDPA
• Cavitation
• Conicity
• High p / T test rig
• Spray development • 150 bar/1000 K
• Liquid length • O2/N2 sweep
• Vapour length
• Modelling
• CFD (RANS & LES) • 1D
• Internal flow • 3D
• Cavitation

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 Turbochargers
RESEARCH TOPICS TOOLS RESULTS

• Off-design testing • Thermo-hydraulic test rig

• Improved model for 1D • Air gas-stands:

software • 0.2 kg/s @ 450 ºC
• 0.33 kg/s @ 450 ºC
• Heat transfer • Exhaust gas-stands:
• 0.66 kg/s @ 750 ºC
• 1 kg/s @ 950 ºC
• Compressor surge • 2 kg/s @ 500 ºC
• CFD:
• Turbine pulsating flow • Compressor stall and surge
• Pulsating flow turbine

• Acoustic performance

• Turbocharger failures

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 Noise Control
RESEARCH TOPICS TOOLS RESULTS

• Source characterization • Anechoic chamber

Air at high
t pressure
(cut-off freq. 100Hz) Control

•
Electrovalve

Acoustic attenuation A1
Transducer 1
circuit
Charge

•
amplifiers
Impulse test rig Transducer 2
12 3
Spectrum
analyzer

B1 B2
Element
Computer

• Flow noise generation • Steady flow test rig Transducer 3

• Modelling 1D, 3D
• Backpressure

• Combustion noise

• Psycho-acoustics

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 Thermal Management
RESEARCH TOPICS TOOLS RESULTS
• Engine heat transfer • Thermal characteri-zation QH3/C [ - ]

test rig 3 0.14

0.12

• Innovative cooling • Climatic chamber -0.0.051

-0 43
-0.03 3
0.1

strategies 2.5

Compression Ratio [ - ]
-0.02
-0.017
-0.011 0.08

• (-30ºC; 3000 m altitude)

0.007
0.016
0.06

2 0.04

• Emerging cooling concepts • Climatic engine test bench 88 3 8

0.00.09 .00.1
9 01
0.02

(-30 ‒ +40ºC)
0
0
0.1
1.5 0.111
0.137 -0.02
0.137
0.139

• Cold starting • Modelling 1D, 3D 1

0.02 0.04
0.153

0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12

-0.04

-0.06

Compressor Mass Flow [kg/s]

• Fluid and heat flow in

engine enclosures

• Applications to HEV

• Waste Heat Recovery

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 Maintenance Engineering
TOPICS & TOOLS
 Maintenance systems audits
 SWOT analysis
 Integral maintenance systems
 Development & application
 Corrective maintenance
 RAMS studies
 Failure analysis
 Preventive maintenance
 Scheduling and procedures
 Optimization
 Condition based maintenance
 Diagnosis techniques
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RESULTS
 Fuel & lubricants laboratory
 Lubes degradation
 Contamination quantification
 Engine wear
 Biofuel analysis
 Vehicle testing facilities
 Chassis dynamometers
 Pollutant emissions control
 Failure diagnosis
 Engine monitoring
 Non destructive testing
 Endoscopy
 Thermography
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 CFD
TOPICS TOOLS & RESULTS

 Work fields
 Air-management and turbocharging flows
 Non-reactive flows
 Injection & Combustion
 Exhaust and combustionnoise
 Heat transfer
 External Aerodynamics
 Resources
 Own cluster: 400 cores
 Access granted to shared HPC resources
 Codes
 Ansys (Fluent)
 Adapco (StarCD&STARCCM+)
 OpenCFD (OpenFOAM)
 CONVERGE

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