About CD-adapco
About CD-adapco
What is CFD?
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CD-adapco Products
STAR-CCM+
STAR-CD
STAR-CAD Series
STAR-View+
STAR-Design
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CFD and CAE Application Areas
Aerospace
Automotive
Biomedical
Buildings
Chemical
Energy
Environmental
Marine
Oil and Gas
Turbomachinery
About CD-adapco
CD-adapco is the world's largest independent CFD focused CAE provider. Our core products are the technology-leading simulation packages, STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD. The scope of our activities, however, extends well beyond CFD software development to encompass a wide range of CAE engineering services in CFD and FEA.
We have more than 28 years of experience in delivering industrial strength engineering simulation to a wide range of industries and application areas. We have over 7000 users of our software, working at 3000 different companies, spending in total over $80 million on our software and services. Our customer approval ratings are very high, in our 2008 survey 93% of our customers declared themselves satisfied, or very satisfied with our software and services, a fact reflected in a consistently high customer retention rate.
Growing at a rate of over 20% per year, CD-adapco employees over 400 talented individuals, working at 21 different offices across the globe, involved in dedicated support, software development and engineering services.
Our main centers are in New York, London and Yokohama. We have subsidiary offices and distributors throughout the world providing local CFD software support, training and CFD/CAE consultancy and engineering services.
CD-adapco aims to be continually technically ahead with a mission to offer our clients the world's most useful advanced CFD/CAE software and services. Our ongoing mission is "establishing a long term relationships with our Industrial Partners by becoming their preferred CAE solution provider."
Steve MacDonald
President of CD-adapco

