Every analysis type
87 analysis types across nine modules — what each one answers, which solver runs it, and which module owns it.
Computational fluid dynamics
Available nowThe shipping module, grouped the way the application’s New Case dialog groups it. Every type below has a page describing the physics, the OpenFOAM solver behind it, and what the application sets up for you.
Aerodynamics & wind
Heat transfer
Marine & free surface
Multiphase & phase change
Multicomponent & combustion
SHD Sim FEA
Available nowSeventeen analysis types on one solver — code_aster, the research code EDF assesses nuclear plant with, built natively for Windows.
Dynamics
Durability and failure
Materials and media
SHD Sim Thermal
Available nowThermal does not get a solver of its own. It belongs to whichever solver is already in the case — which is a design decision, not a limitation.
Conduction
Driven heating
Phase change
SHD Sim EM
Available nowOne Elmer integration covers electromagnetics, thermal, elasticity and acoustics — with coupled-field solution built in rather than bolted on.
SHD Sim Studies
Available nowNo new solver, no new mesh path, no new results reader. The whole family is a loop over the existing case model, which is why it is the cheapest capability on the roadmap and the one that changes how the product is used.
Optimisation
SHD Sim Acoustics
Available nowStructure-borne and air-borne noise on the same mesh path as everything else — and the aeroacoustic half already exists inside the CFD module.
Structural and cavity
SHD Sim Multiphysics
Available nowA coupled case is its own case type, not a checkbox on an existing one. The cheap half answers most of the question and needs no coupling library at all.
Two-way coupling
Without a coupling library
SHD Sim Shape
Available nowJustified by one thing only — the adjoint. Shape sensitivities across many design variables at roughly the cost of a single run, which a parameter sweep cannot match.
SHD Sim Explicit
Available nowThe right tool for events no implicit solver can touch — milliseconds, large deformation, contact everywhere, and no equilibrium to iterate towards.
Local only. OpenRadioss is AGPL-3.0, so it ships as a desktop subprocess and is deliberately not offered on the provisioned backend — running it as a remote service is the case where AGPL section 13 would reach the whole work. Remote execution stays available for every other module.