Caedium as Alternative to ANSYS Fluent
I have been a FLUENT user for over a year now but recently have found much interested in switching to OpenFOAM. However, I have absolutely no experiences using Linux so my ability is highly limited. I finally came across Caedium, which is compatible with Windows as stated on your website. Right now I am seriously considering trying out Caedium but would like to know more information about it. If it can perform the same tasks I do in FLUENT then it will give our company significant cost savings. I would like to know if Caedium can do the following:
Solving RANS internal flow; ability to solve hybrid/non-conformal mesh
Simulation of atomizing spray using Euler-Lagrangrian method (Discrete Phase Modeling in Fluent)
Option for porous media/perforated plate assumption of flow field
Chemical reaction of gaseous species
I look forward to your response.
[Edit: based on an email exchange]
Caedium Capabilities
Caedium is good for incompressible/compressible steady/unsteady single-phase fluid flow and heat transfer, for more details try "Caedium RANS Flow"
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