By combining Ennova with OpenFOAM®, you not only access top-tier CAD import capabilities and state-of-the-art mesh generation but also enjoy a cost-effective, fixed-price approach to CFD. Say goodbye to steep HPC licensing expenses and welcome a contemporary graphical user interface, making simulations more budget-friendly than ever.
With the comprehensive pre- and post-processing capabilities offered in commercial CFD software, larger organizations have traditionally been well-equipped for CFD simulations. In contrast, smaller organizations with limited budgets often resorted to open-source software like OpenFOAM. However, this approach came with its own set of challenges, including a lack of a modern user interface, limitations in CAD data management, and less advanced mesh generation capabilities.
Now, a superior choice has emerged: Ennova CFD. Ennova offers top-tier CAD import functionality powered by Techsoft 3D’s Hoops Exchange, enabling seamless CAD data management across various formats and standards. It excels in CAD cleanup and boasts state-of-the-art mesh generation capabilities, developed by the same team behind the acclaimed ICEM CFD software. Ennova further streamlines the process with an intuitive GUI for OpenFOAM® setup and seamless integration with other popular CFD packages. To complete the package, Ennova’s post-processing capabilities are driven by VTK, the same technology that powers Paraview.
By utilizing Ennova alongside OpenFOAM®, you not only gain access to cutting-edge simulation features but also embrace an economical, fixed-price model for your CFD journey, free from the constraints of exorbitant HPC licensing costs. This opens the door to advanced simulations that are both accessible and budget-friendly.”
Meshing is crucial for CFD and FEA, but it can be time-consuming, especially with complex geometries. Achieving a balance between mesh quality, computational efficiency, and project timelines is a challenge. With Ennova, engineers can streamline the process and save time while maintaining accuracy. With Ennova you have more time to focus on simulations rather than on meshing and geometry clean up.
In this video we present an overview of the Ennova approach. It is under three minutes and gives the philosophy of our technology.
Veiw the setup & execution including geometry import, boundary condition assignment, launching OpenFOAM®, and result visualization in Ennova.
Ennova can seamlessly integrate into your established CFD workflow, enhancing its efficiency and capabilities. With its user-friendly GUI, it simplifies the setup of popular CFD packages, such as OpenFOAM®, while offering advanced CAD import, cleanup, and meshing tools. By incorporating Ennova into your workflow, you can streamline your processes, save time, and reduce costs. It provides an affordable alternative to expensive HPC licenses and empowers you to maximize your computational resources. Whether you’re conducting simulations on low-cost Linux clusters or cloud computing, Ennova can help you achieve more while maintaining the same familiar workflow.
Unlock the power of integrated open-source CFD for rotating machinery applications. This tutorial demonstrates the complete workflow, providing a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to setting up a propeller case using the pre-processing capabilities of Ennova CFD. Learn how to efficiently handle geometry preparation, define the computational domain and apply the necessary boundary conditions and setup specifically optimized for a subsequent simulation run in OpenFOAM. This guide ensures you can streamline your process from a CAD model to a full simulation-ready case file.
This video is essential for you to learn and practice the full workflow. It covers all the necessary topics and detailed steps, ensuring you gain a complete understanding of the setup process for propeller CFD using Ennova CFD and OpenFOAM.
Ennova Technologies empowers organizations to work smarter and faster by simplifying complex engineering workflows. Its platform enhances efficiency, delivers reliable and precise results and enables informed decision-making. By streamlining processes and boosting overall productivity, teams can achieve superior outcomes, reduce project timelines and costs and maintain full control and flexibility over every aspect of their work.
Our tools use advanced algorithms to generate complex, high-quality meshes with minimal manual intervention, reducing early-stage preparation time.
Manage all phases of your OpenFOAM project, from setup to final results, within one intuitive graphical environment.
Utilize multi-core CPU acceleration to significantly speed up meshing and simulation tasks.
Automate repetitive geometry and meshing operations so engineers can focus on deeper analysis and decision-making.
Integrate seamlessly with in-house or custom solvers, allowing Ennova to adapt around your engineering workflow—not the other way around.
Optimized meshing and solver settings enable quicker, more stable convergence, lowering overall simulation runtime.
High-precision meshing ensures reliable foundational data, improving the overall quality of simulation outcomes.
Deliver high-fidelity results that closely match physical behavior and experimental validation.
Substantially shorten the time required for geometry cleanup, defeaturing, and model setup.
Access a powerful, full-featured CFD suite that provides a fixed, budget-friendly economic alternative to costly proprietary software.
By supporting a vast array of CAD formats and ensuring seamless solver interoperability, Ennova significantly reduces the time engineers spend on file conversions and compatibility issues, allowing them to focus entirely on analysis, design optimization, and innovation.
Ennova empowers engineers to work effortlessly with a wide range of CAD formats. Ennova supports importing both CAD native and neutral files, including STL, IGES, STEP, Parasolid and more. This versatility ensures that no matter the source, your geometry can be seamlessly brought into Ennova for further simulation or analysis.
Beyond standard CAD files, Ennova allows importing files from multiple solver platforms such as Star-CD, Fluent, CGNS, IcemCFD, VTK and OpenFOAM. This feature ensures that engineers can continue their workflow without worrying about file compatibility between different simulation environments.
Ennova doesn’t just stop at importing-exporting your mesh data is equally flexible. The software allows exporting to major solvers like Star-CD, Fluent, CGNS, IcemCFD, OpenFOAM, Ennova, and CFD++. This capability streamlines collaboration between teams working on different platforms and ensures a smooth transition from pre-processing to solver execution.
This approach creates an initial shrink-wrap mesh around the model, which is then refined through a re-meshing step. This ensures a clean, fully closed domain suitable for simulation.
In this method, edge spacings are automatically calculated, and the edges and faces are meshed first. Boundary layers are then generated, after which the remaining volume is filled with tetrahedral or polyhedral elements. If swept or structured volumes are identified, they are automatically meshed using the appropriate algorithms.
The Network-Driven Processing System forms the computational backbone of the Ennova platform. It is specifically engineered to enable smooth interaction between local users and powerful backend servers, which is critical for efficient simulation handling of large and complex industrial models. This system ensures that the desktop user experience remains fast and fluid, regardless of the heavy geometry processing being executed remotely, maximizing overall engineering throughput.
A major bottleneck in CFD is eliminated by this capability. The Seamless Engineering Model Import feature ensures immediate productivity by supporting the direct importing of design files from various CAD tools without compatibility issues. This crucial functionality prevents the data degradation and translation errors often encountered with non-native file formats, guaranteeing that the simulation process starts with a high-fidelity model that preserves the geometric integrity of the original design.
The Automated Geometry Repair System is essential for model reliability, providing the capability to instantly achieve a clean, watertight model. The system automatically identifies and resolves gaps, overlaps, missing faces, and other surface imperfections that frequently exist in industrial CAD geometry. By swiftly addressing these issues, it achieves a clean and fully simulation-ready model with minimal manual effort, significantly accelerating the preprocessing timeline and enhancing the reliability of subsequent meshing and CFD analysis.
Leveraging advanced performance features, Ennova establishes itself as a fast and reliable engineering simulation platform, dedicated to Streamlined Preprocessing for Reliable Simulations. This performance begins with the Network-Driven Processing System, which enables smooth interaction between local users and servers for efficient simulation handling. Furthermore, the platform supports Seamless Engineering Model Import, allowing the importing of design files from various CAD tools without compatibility issues. Crucially, the Automated Geometry Repair System automatically identifies and resolves gaps, overlaps, missing faces, and other surface imperfections to achieve a clean and fully simulation-ready model.
After the geometry cleanup stage, Ennova seamlessly transitions the model into the meshing workflow. The software automatically recognizes the refined surfaces and applies well-suited meshing parameters to generate a high-quality, simulation-ready mesh. With advanced feature detection, smooth element distribution, and reliable boundary layer generation, Ennova ensures that even complex geometries achieve a consistent and accurate mesh. This results in a strong foundation for downstream analysis, improving overall efficiency and delivering precise, dependable simulation results.
Ennova delivers exceptional flexibility and scalability through its Cloud-Accessible Computing Resources. This capability enables users to offload heavy simulation workloads to the cloud, eliminating dependency on local hardware limitations. By scaling computational power on demand, engineers can efficiently handle large models, complex physics, and high-fidelity analyses that would otherwise exceed the capacity of standard desktop systems. With Ennova’s cloud integration, users gain faster turnaround times, improved productivity, and the ability to run advanced simulations anytime, anywhere.
This advanced feature is essential for high-fidelity studies in the aerospace domain. The External Aerodynamic Domain Meshing for Flight Simulations capability focuses on accurately creating large outer-flow meshes around critical flight vehicles. Specifically, it supports complex geometries such as aircraft, rockets, and UAVs. By generating these specialized external domains, the tool directly helps engineers simulate crucial aerodynamic behaviors, including airflow, lift, and drag, which are foundational to performance assessment. Furthermore, this meshing ensures the proper discretization needed to capture high-speed aerodynamic behavior, guaranteeing reliable simulation outcomes.
Ennova provides excellent opportunity for working with OpenFOAM®
In this section, you’ll find answers to some of the common inquiries that may arise about Ennova CFD, Pre- and Post Processer for CFD.
No, Ennova is proprietary software developed by Ennova Technologies, the very team behind ICEM CFD. It's important to note that Ennova does not impose charges for the solver, which is OpenFOAM.
No, Ennova only does the installation for Ennova. OpenFOAM has to be installed separately by the user. However user only needs to select the OpenFOAM version installed and Ennova initiates the run.
Ennova uses a proprietary parallel architecture that utilizes modern multi-core CPU's to speed up CAD import, CAD cleanup and mesh generation by factors of 10x or 100x
Within your present workflow Ennova can be used as meshing tool if you don't want to change your solver. Thanks to the advanced geometry clean-up and meshing capabilities, you can generate high quality mesh in fraction of the time and then use your own solver for running the simulations.
Of-course yes, please fill the trial request form and our sales consultant will help you with the process.
Yes, Ennova is keen to popularise OpenFOAM as an alternative solutions and encourages academics to build the ecosystem for increasing OpenFOAM user base. Academics are offered discounted prices and to know if you qualify for a discounted academic pricing, please contact us by filling the form and our sales consultant will help you with the process.
Ennova is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, but it's worth noting that OpenFOAM operates with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows. Ennova's GUI for OpenFOAM is designed to be user-friendly, making it accessible to individuals with no prior experience with Linux. If you have additional inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact us by completing the form, and our team will promptly respond to your questions.
Ennova provides highly competitive pricing. To obtain a quotation, kindly reach out to us by completing the contact form.
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