R&D with Fastflo

Fastflo has been used in CSIRO research since the early 1990s. The work involves both development under contract of numerical solutions for problems posed by Fastflo customers, and also strategic investment by CSIRO.

For industrial jobs, we discuss with clients their needs and how we can help meet them using Fastflo. We then formulate a preliminary proposal and negotiate about details such as the work plan, milestones, deliverables and payment schedule. The deliverables will generally take the form of Fastflo code for particular aspects of a problem, plus a report to accompany the software. We then carry out the work according to the schedule and provide the deliverables. As appropriate, we work with the client to implement the work. We have a successful record of providing these services to clients in other countries.

For strategic research, we have found Fastflo to be a reliable and versatile software package. In the early days, our areas of application were primarily fluid dynamics, especially the sort of fluids applications occurring in Australian industry. These included heat and mass transfer, turbulent flow, porous media and free surface flows. In the late 1990s, we used Fastflo to solve various option-pricing models in the finance industry. The classical example is the Black-Scholes equation. More recently, we have investigated packed bed chromatography and various geophysical models. At the time of writing, we are developing expertise in fluid-structure interaction computations for aerodynamic applications.

For some further details of the research carried out using Fastflo, please consult the primary reference source listed in the papers based on Fastflo.

Last updated August 19, 2009