> Anybody on here besides Jarrett using CFD?
 > I am in the market for something.
 >
 > Paul Lamar

Paul,

If linear CFD will do, (ie. no substantial flex/deformation), I would
suggest you to try Alibre.

Sorry, you asked about ComputationalFluidDynamics, not
FiniteElementMethod x)

SolidWorks has some kind of CFD on some packages, Alibre has just FEM
and CAM. Haven't tried others.

I guess there was some raving on some reasonably priced CFD package on
professional motorsport world, definitely not Fluent - it costs 6000 USD
per year :) I try to dig out what it was.

Here's also attached an article from racecar engineering 8/2008 that
talks about slow speed aerodynamics. Very interesting, i should say :)
5.5 mb, cannot make it any smaller...



Cheers,
Petri

I am looking at OPEN Foam. Solid works is too expensive and there is
an annual fee.

http://www.opencfd.co.uk/index.html

http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/linux.html

Its free but perhaps a bit hard to install.
It would be worth setting up a dedicated computer running Ubuntu.

Paul