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About This Webinar
Presented by Andrew Larson and Sam Clark of CPFD at the 2026 Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference.
Barracuda Virtual Reactor continues to evolve with new capabilities that improve simulation accuracy, computational performance, and user productivity. This presentation provides an overview of recent product development efforts, highlighting major enhancements introduced in Barracuda Virtual Reactor releases 24.1 through 26.0, including advances in particle collision modeling, particle resolution, boundary condition capabilities, thermal modeling, GPU performance, and post-processing. In addition to product updates, attendees will learn about new support resources and training opportunities available through the CPFD support portal.
About the Speaker
Andrew began work on GPU acceleration of Barracuda Virtual Reactor version 16 in 2012, and since then has implemented multi-GPU calculations. Andrew’s work impacts the full product stack and product quality as the Principal Software Engineer. Andrew earned two Master’s from the University of Minnesota Duluth, one in Applied and Computational Mathematics and another in Computer Science.
Sam has been with CPFD since 2008, and is an expert at simulating thermal, reacting, multiphase gas-particle systems with Barracuda Virtual Reactor. As Product Manager, he works closely with CPFD’s development team to make Virtual Reactor the best tool possible for our users. Sam holds an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico.