windtunnel
Desktop virtual wind tunnel: drop in an STL, get OpenFOAM CFD (drag/lift, pressure maps, flow slices, streamlines)
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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views
Niche: physics and engineering simulation software · 104 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- aerodynamics
- cfd
- fastapi
- macos
- openfoam
- react
- +4 more
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 526 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #458 of 527 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- fluidsim-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Browser viz of OpenAI's "spaghetti" Navier–Stokes vortex (illustration) · hn · 2026-09-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- NinjaMesher · github · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Windflow · github · 2026-10-29 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- genpark-vorticity-streamfunction-navier-stokes-skill · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Firemaps Spain · hn · 2026-07-29 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer · hn · 2026-06-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ClearWater6.1 · github · 2026-09-29 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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