windtunnel
Desktop virtual wind tunnel: drop in an STL, get OpenFOAM CFD (drag/lift, pressure maps, flow slices, streamlines)
Details
- External ID
- 1364756237
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- windtunnel
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.14514476044068664
- Tags
- aerodynamics, cfd, fastapi, macos, openfoam, react, simulation, stl, threejs, wind-tunnel
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- 3D graphics and physics simulation tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop cfd wind tunnel simulation tool for 3d models
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A frontend UI for dragging/dropping STL files and displaying 3D results is straightforward, but wrapping and orchestrating OpenFOAM mesh generation and CFD solvers reliably is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: The stack involves an Electron or web app paired with a native backend executing OpenFOAM (via Docker or local binary). The hardest challenges are automated robust surface meshing (snappyHexMesh) for arbitrary messy CAD/STL geometry, convergence failure handling, and extracting/rendering 3D vector fields using VTK or Three.js.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #129 of 165 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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