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About This Webinar
Presented by Dr. James Parker of CPFD at the 2026 Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference.
This talk provides an update on the strategic direction of Barracuda Virtual Reactor development, highlighting recent advances and future initiatives designed to expand the software’s capabilities and accelerate engineering workflows. The presentation reviews new technologies introduced in Version 26.0, including the Elastic Dense Phase Collision Model, enhanced liquid, thermal, and erosion modeling capabilities, and ongoing development for rotating systems. It also discusses the role of application models in delivering validated workflows across a growing range of industries. Finally, the presentation introduces CPFD’s Reduced Order Modeling (ROM) technology, demonstrating how AI-powered surrogate models can dramatically reduce computational effort for model calibration, design optimization, and rapid exploration of engineering solution spaces.
About the Speaker
James oversees the software development of Barracuda Virtual Reactor and CPFD’s computational research of multiphase modeling techniques. Prior to his appointment as CTO, James used Barracuda Virtual Reactor on a wide range of projects for refining, polyolefin, biomass, coal, and polysilicon applications. James has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University.