CPFD Software Releases Barracuda Version 12.1

By DE Editors

CPFD Software, LLC ( Albuquerque, NM)  released Barracuda version 12.1, which offers features that broaden its use for engineering applications to particle flow behavior in diverse industrial unit operations.

Built on proprietary CPFD technology, the software accurately treats discrete particulate solids of any size-distribution flowing with dilute-to-dense loadings in a gas or liquid system.

Version 12.1 offers enhancements such as treatment of wall-particle interactions including attrition, LES turbulence and wall shear, the ability to dynamically re-read flow boundary conditions, and implicit treatment of liquid-solid flows. Proven applications are broad across petrochemical, chemical, power generation, and material processing, such as risers, cyclones, deep-bed reactors, CFB power plants, coal or biomass gasifiers, and filtration/settling.

The software fulfills users’ requests for special graphics to help understand complex, 3D flows containing millions of particles; the graphical output now includes time-averaged particles; and fluid massflux.

For more information on Barracuda, please visit CPFD Software, LLC.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.