Fluent has a long history of success in F1. Eight of the last 10 Formula 1 championship winning teams used Fluent’s CFD software. WilliamsF1 won two of its sixteen World Championships in 1996 and 1997 using FLUENT CFD, but an unbroken partnership between the two has existed dating back to the early 1990s.

Naethan Eagles, Senior CFD Aerodynamicist at WilliamsF1, explains: “The ability to assess the potential of a new design quickly and efficiently is key to minimising the "time to track" of a given design. The new features in TGrid V4 give the FLUENT user the ability to generate high quality mesh around complex geometry in minutes without having continually to modify the underlying surface mesh or remove problematic features. This functionality has significantly reduced the time to build our CFD models, and hence the time to evaluate the performance of a new design or concept.”

Chris King, Managing Director at Fluent Europe Ltd., says: “Fluent has long been the technical leader in CFD. Our investment in continual innovation and expert support is the main reason Fluent has maintained, for more than ten years, its position as the dominant provider of CFD to F1, with 7 of the current 10 teams using our software. We anticipate this commitment to serving our clients’ needs will see our strong position in both F1 and the commercial automotive CFD market, strengthened over the coming years.”