Cādence has been market leader in electronics simulation software for decades. In recent years Cādence has expanded in various fields of numerical software engineering, aiming to become technology leader.
They have been particularly successful in their CFD endeavor, acquiring Numeca, Coupled Numerics, and Pointwise.
The technology stack has been gathered under one umbrella – Cādence Fidelity.
The Belgian sofware company has been acquired in 2021. Its CFD software Numeca FINE and its meshing tool Numeca Hexpress have been at the forefront of CFD for decades.
Most notably Numeca has been used in the compressible, high speed turbomachinery community.
Numeca’s founder Prof. Charles Hirsch published the famous CFD book Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows.
Swiss based CoupledNumerics also joined in 2021 . Specialized in fully implitit, coupled algorithms, the company adds advanced know-how to Cādence’ technology stack. Its implicity coupled codes provide computational robustness and speed. Moreover, its multi-processor approach scales nearly linearly up to thousands of cores.
Founders Prof. Marwan Darwish and Prof. Luca Mangani are known for their CFD bestseller The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
US-based meshing technology leader Pointwise utilizes industry leading mesh generation techniques as well as geometry model preparation capabilities for high fidelity characterization of the fluid domain.
Cādence is very engaged in advanced technology research and keeps adding capabilities to its core solvers.
Advanced technologies include multi-phase modelling, GPU computing or large eddy simulation
