If you want the compute price of OpenFOAM® AND the ease of use and full feature set of Fluent™ and CCM+™ , EnnovaCFD™ is your answer.
Until now, engineers have had only two choices for CFD simulation: expensive proprietary software such as Fluent™ from Ansys or CCM+™ from Seimens, which have a full suite of pre- and post- processing; or open source software such as OpenFOAM® that allows them to run simulations in a cost effective manner but lack a modern user interface and have no ability to import and prepare CAD data and have only rudimentary mesh generation capabilities.
Now there is a better choice: Ennova. With Ennova, you get world class CAD import powered by Hoops Exchange from Techsoft 3D. Hoops Exchange allows you to import CAD from all leading proprietary formats and exchange standards. You get world class CAD cleanup. You get the most advanced mesh generation available, brought to you by the same team that created ICEM CFD. You get an easy to use GUI for setting up OpenFOAM® and many other popular CFD packages. You get post processing powered by VTK™, the same technology used in Paraview.
Using Ennova with OpenFOAM®, you have a fixed priced way to perform CFD, limited only by the amount of compute power you can afford without exorbitant HPC licenses.
You have your choice when choosing a CFD solution. What distinguishes one code from another is the set of tools that surround the actual CFD code and the price you pay for that bundle. With Ennova we can reduce your software license cost, reduce the time it takes to prepare your CFD simulations, and increase the quality of your results.
With the advent of low cost linux clusters and cloud computing, massive amounts of compute power are now at everyone's fingertips. Ennova gives you the pre- and post-processing quality users expect while remaining independent of your CFD solver.
The biggest bottleneck to running more CFD is importing, cleaning and meshing CAD data. Ennova uses massively parallel algorithms to load, heal, and prepare large assemblies while minimizing the time spent in mesh generation.
At Ennova, meshing is our passion. Advanced algorithms build boundary layers and identify critical areas where anisotropic and structured surface and volume meshes are needed for better fidelity.
Ennova supports CFD workflows across engineering teams that need better geometry handling, stronger mesh quality, and a more modern path to simulation.
Preparing CAD data for CFD mesh generation has always been the Achilles' heel of the process. With Ennova's mesh topology technology, cleanup of assemblies of thousands of parts can be accomplished in minutes with a single button push.
If you want the compute price of OpenFOAM® AND the ease of use and full feature set of Fluent™ and CCM+™ , EnnovaCFD™ is your answer. We accomplish this by deploying leading edge geometry healing and grid generation on a client/server/parallel architecture that allows the pre- and post-processing to access the same compute resources that are used for the CFD solver.
For the highest accuracy, a mesh with three-fold anisotropy is the only thing that fits the bill. Ennova automates what once required a great deal of human effort in tools such as ICEM-CFD HEXA.
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In 2007 when I left Ansys to start Ennova, I wanted to make sure that what we created would be different enough from ICEM-CFD to be compelling to ICEM-CFD users. The biggest difference between 1990 and 2007 was that computing stopped getting faster due to CPU cycle time and started becoming faster because each CPU contained more and more cores. The future was more CPU cores, not faster ones.Dr. Michael Hohmeyer, CEO / Co-Founder
That shift shaped Ennova from the start. The platform was built for parallel geometry healing, mesh generation, and engineering workflow acceleration, rather than waiting for clock speed improvements to solve the problem indirectly.
Dr. Hohmeyer received his bachelor's degree in Math and Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1986 and later earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science there in 1992. He co-founded ICEM CFD Engineering, developed both ICEM CFD Tetra and ICEM CFD Hexa, and later left Ansys in 2007 to form Ennova.
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Mike Salari joined Ennova in April 2024 to lead sales and business development. He was previously VP of Operations at ICEM CFD Engineering, later founded Mindware Engineering, and went on to hold multiple executive roles at ESI Group including corporate COO for revenue generation.
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Mr. Hsu is the founder and CEO of IDAJ, one of the largest CAE-focused distributors and technical solution companies in Asia. IDAJ is a major investor in Ennova and its exclusive distributor in the Far East territory.
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Mr. Egan earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, began his career at Adapco, and later used CFD to design America's Cup boats for Team New Zealand and the Prada Syndicate. He brings years of experience as a CFD user.
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Dr. Magnuson earned degrees in Math, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics from St. Olaf College and MIT. He worked with Dr. Hohmeyer at Control Data and ICEM CFD Engineering and is an expert in CAD systems, data exchange, and geometry repair.
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Dr. Matsushima received his bachelor's degree from Kyoto University and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering. He brings many years of experience in CFD and grid generation from his work at CD Adapco.
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Amir joined Ennova in 2012 as Senior CFD Engineer. He studied Aerospace Engineering at Sharif University of Technology and later pursued a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a CFD specialization at the University of Waterloo.
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Dr. Reinsch received his bachelor's and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked on numerical simulations of free electron lasers, computational electrodynamics in photolithography, and currently lectures in Berkeley's Physics Department.
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