CPFD Software

Webinar: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 25.0 - April 30, 2025
2025-04-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
CPFD will host a webinar on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 10 am CDT: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 25.0.
Register for the webinar to join us and learn about the major features and enhancements of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor 25.0 release, including:

Wall Impact Models
Hydrostatic Pressure at ICs and BCs
Thermal Wall GUI Redesign
Location User-defined Expressions
Non-linear Fluid Temperature Solver
Tecplot Improvements

There will be plenty of time for Q&A at the end of the webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The webinar will be recorded and available for playback after the live presentation.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training June 9-13, 2025
2025-06-09 - 2025-06-13
This training is designed to get you up to speed with Barracuda Virtual Reactor in five days. Each day, attendees work through self-led materials and join a pre-scheduled 1-hour web meeting that emphasizes interaction with instructors and other participants. By the end of the course, you’ll have a working understanding of how to use Virtual Reactor™ software, including project setup, operating the solver, and post-processing using Tecplot for Barracuda. Depending on your organization’s needs, our experienced team of engineers and training staff can provide hands-on assistance as you set up your own project in Virtual Reactor during private break-out sessions.
Contact us for pricing information or to register your interest in the class.

Webinar: Introduction to Arena-flow - June 18, 2025
2025-06-18 10:00 - 11:00
Playback available here.
CPFD Software is excited to host a live webinar introducing Arena-flow, our advanced simulation tool for sand core and mold blowing/shooting and curing.
Arena-flow is trusted by OEMs, foundries, equipment manufacturers, and core/pattern shops to complement metal flow and solidification tools — helping ensure cores are right the first time.
This webinar will include:

An introduction to CPFD and Arena-flow
Simulated coremaking processes including cold-box, shell, inorganics, green sand molds, and more
What makes Arena-flow unique: air-driven, discrete particle MP-PIC modeling
Considerations prior to launching a core blowing project
Live step-by-step demonstration and post-processing with Tecplot 360
Q&A with CPFD engineers

After registering, you’ll receive instructions for joining. A recording will be available for on-demand viewing after the event.
Click here to register.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training August 4-8, 2025
2025-08-04 - 2025-08-08

Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series: Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor - September 30, 2025
2025-09-30 10:00 - 11:00
UPDATE (10/01/2025): Playback available here.
This webinar, the first in the Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series, will focus on the Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor (CFBC) Application Model, a powerful digital twin that captures combustion dynamics across dense, transition, and dilute zones of a CFB riser. This model has been validated against experimental data, providing engineers with a trusted tool to study combustion efficiency, emissions characteristics, and clean energy pathways.
Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series is designed to give engineers and researchers deeper insight into how Barracuda Virtual Reactor is applied to real-world challenges. Application models are sample cases that can be downloaded, run, and customized by the Barracuda Virtual Reactor user community.
We invite you to join us for this in-depth session to see how Barracuda Virtual Reactor can be applied to your combustion and clean energy projects. Then, after the webinar, download and run the model yourself!

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training October 6-10, 2025
2025-10-06 - 2025-10-10

Webinar: Getting Started with Arena-flow 12.0 - October 29, 2025
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:00
Update: Playback available now.

CPFD Software will host a live webinar on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 10 a.m. CDT, Getting Started with Arena-flow 12.0.

This session will introduce the newest version of Arena-flow, highlighting key new features and enhancements designed to improve productivity and extend simulation capabilities. More specifically, Arena-flow 12.0 allows users to initialize a case using sand information from a previous simulation, expanding capabilities to include double blowing, curing after blowing, and more.

The webinar will include a live demonstration of the new features followed by Q&A with our technical team. All registrants will receive a recording link following the live session.

Learn more about Arena-flow and CPFD Software.

Webinar: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 25.1 - November 12, 2025
2025-11-12 10:00 - 11:00
CPFD will host a webinar on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 10 am CST: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 25.1. Register for the webinar to join us and learn about the major features and enhancements of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor 25.1 release, including:

Specify heat transfer rate and flux at Thermal Wall BCs
Baffle pass-through probability: filter particles by size
Rotate output data for simulations with rotating gravity

There will be plenty of time for Q&A at the end of the webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The webinar will be recorded and available for playback after the live presentation.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training December 8-12, 2025
2025-12-08 - 2025-12-12

Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series: Proppant Transport in Hydraulic Fractures - December 10, 2025
2025-12-10 10:00 - 11:00
UPDATE 12/10/25: Playback available now here.

CPFD Software’s Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series is designed to give engineers and researchers deeper insight into how Barracuda Virtual Reactor is applied to real-world challenges. Application models are sample cases that can be downloaded, run, and customized by the Barracuda Virtual Reactor user community.

This installment in the series will focus on the Proppant Transport in Hydraulic Fractures Application Model, which provides a detailed digital twin of lab-scale fracture flow. The model captures the coupled particle-fluid physics that control proppant delivery and long-term bed evolution, key factors governing fracture coverage and well productivity.

Join us to learn how this application model can help advance your understanding of subsurface transport and improve production outcomes.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training January 26-30, 2026
2026-01-26 - 2026-01-30

Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series: Direct Reduced Iron Shaft Furnace - February 11, 2026
2026-02-11 10:00 - 11:00
UPDATE 02-11-2026: Playback available now.
CPFD Software’s Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series is designed to give engineers and researchers deeper insight into how Barracuda Virtual Reactor is applied to real-world challenges. Application models are sample cases that can be downloaded, run, and customized by the Barracuda Virtual Reactor user community.

This installment in the series will focus on the Direct Reduced Iron Shaft Furnace Application Model, which provides a detailed digital twin of a full-scale DRI shaft furnace based on operating data from a commercial plant in Quebec, Canada. The model captures key process zones, including cooling, reducing, and transition regions, using a moving bed framework with compressible flow, volumetric and discrete reaction chemistry, and user-defined reaction kinetics. Additionally, CPFD will be sharing results from our work with Molten Industries in the development of a novel H₂-DRI shaft furnace.

Join us to learn how this application model can help advance your understanding of subsurface transport and improve production outcomes.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training February 23-27, 2026
2026-02-23 - 2026-02-27

Emerging Fluidization Applications Korean Workshop - March 20, 2026
2026-03-20 00:00 - 23:59
CPFD Software, together with KWT Solution Inc., are hosting a workshop focused on emerging applications of fluidization technology, taking place on Friday, March 20, 2026 in Daejeon.
This workshop focuses on newer applications such as hydrogen/ammonia, plastic recycling, gasification (waste and biomass), carbon capture, and material processing (lithium, graphite, graphene, rare earth). Presentations from guest speakers including PSRI, industry, and academia, span topics including:

Overview of emerging application areas
Accelerating commercialization and scale-up via simulation
Case studies and examples
The role of AI, machine learning, and reduced order modeling
Panel discussion on local trends

Engineers, managers, and others are encouraged to attend to learn about the versatility of fluidization for broad and emerging application areas, and how software complements cold-flow, pilot and demonstration plant data to accelerate scale-up while reducing risk.
The workshop takes place at the Hotel Onama (1 Expo-ro, Yuseong District, Daejeon, South Korea). Additional information is available here. If you have any questions, or to register, please email KWT Solution (hjlee@ktwsolution.com) or contact us today.
Workshop attendees seeking a deeper understanding are also encouraged to join PSRI’s four-day Fluidization Seminar, taking place March 16-19 at the same venue, which provides a detailed training spanning fundamental principles to advanced operational techniques.

Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series: Cement Calciner Decomposition Furnace - April 15, 2026
2026-04-15 10:00 - 11:00
CPFD Software’s Barracuda Application Model Webinar Series is designed to give engineers and researchers deeper insight into how Barracuda Virtual Reactor is applied to real-world challenges. Application models are sample cases that can be downloaded, run, and customized by the Barracuda Virtual Reactor user community.

In this webinar, we will present the Cement Calciner Decomposition Furnace Application Model, which uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to simulate an industrial-scale calciner based on published plant data from Zhu et al. (2024). The model captures the coupled gas–solid hydrodynamics, coal combustion, devolatilization, and limestone calcination within a fully compressible, reacting multiphase flow framework. Key industrial features are explicitly represented, including kiln exhaust injection, tertiary air staging, multi-level raw meal feeding, coal pneumatic injection, and the riser-to-cyclone transition.

Join us to learn how this application model can help advance your understanding of subsurface transport and improve production outcomes. Learn more and register today!

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training April 27 - May 1, 2026
2026-04-27 - 2026-05-01

Webinar: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 26.0 - May 20, 2026
2026-05-20 10:00 - 11:00
Update May 20, 2026: Webinar playback available here.
CPFD will host a webinar on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 10 am CDT: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 26.0. Register for the webinar to join us and learn about the major features and enhancements of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor 26.0 release, including:

Elastic Dense Collision Model
Particle Resolution Distribution
Injection BCs as Sinks
Faster Baffle Processing
Tecplot 2025 R2 with New Vulkan Graphics Engine

There will be plenty of time for Q&A at the end of the webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The webinar will be recorded and available for playback after the live presentation.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training June 1-5, 2026
2026-06-01 - 2026-06-05

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users' Conference 2026: June 24-26, 2026
2026-06-24 00:00 - 2026-06-26 23:59
Joinn CPFD Software and the global Barracuda Virtual Reactor user community from June 24 – 26, 2026 at Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will take place immediately following the PSRI Technical Committee Meeting.
Additional details can be found on the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2026 page, and be sure to check back regularly for more information about the agenda, events, and speaking opportunities. And don’t hesitate to contact us now with any questions or suggestions.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training August 17-21, 2026
2026-08-17 - 2026-08-21

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training September 21-25, 2026
2026-09-21 - 2026-09-25

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training October 26-30, 2026
2026-10-26 - 2026-10-30

Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training December 7-11, 2026
2026-12-07 - 2026-12-11
