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BASF ECMS deploys CurieOS for AI-driven materials discovery. Read the announcement

CurieOS for hardware development

Link geometry, simulation, and physical test.

Run accelerated CFD across design variants. Compare flow and thermal behavior across operating conditions, then carry simulation results into hardware reviews and the next prototype.

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CurieOS / CFD reviewConcept interface · sample run
Conversation · flow study
Compare the inlet flow before and after the manifold change. Keep pressure drop visible.
CurieOSI updated the run view. The outlet flow is more even in this case. Open the velocity field to inspect the recirculation zones.
CFDflow_case_042 · results linked
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Velocity fieldManifold · comparison view
Run complete
Velocity0–4.2 m/sIllustrative output
Pressure drop12.4 kPa
Mass flow0.80 kg/s
Case042 · B

Workflows

What hardware teams do on CurieOS

Built for VPs of engineering, product managers, and design engineers at equipment manufacturers.

  1. 1

    Sweep design variants with accelerated CFD

    Compare pressure drop and peak temperature across geometries and operating conditions in a single campaign.

    UsesAccelerated CFDApps
  2. 2

    Keep geometry and results together

    Bring SOLIDWORKS, Inventor, or CadQuery geometry as STEP, plus OpenFOAM or Ansys Fluent results, into the workspace where the design decisions happen.

    UsesSOLIDWORKS · OpenFOAM · Ansys Fluent
  3. 3

    Trace every design decision

    Link requirements, simulation results, and test data, so each review shows why the revision changed.

    UsesChatCompany context
Works with

STEP

Cold plate · variant campaign12 runs · 3 complete
Running04
Completed03
Queued05

Simulation campaign monitor · built through chat

CurieOS science and engineering tools

Built by Orbital Industries.
Available only in CurieOS.

Hardware · CFDBuilt by Orbital Industries · CurieOS only

CFD simulations that run faster than anywhere else.

Orbital Industries built CurieOS's accelerated CFD tools. Run flow studies alongside the geometry, operating conditions, and design decisions, at speeds other platforms cannot match.

Flow-field view · illustrativeCFD
One platform

Hardware teams also use the rest of the platform: chat with calculation traces, apps built through chat, company context, and enterprise security. See the full platform

Supported software and data

Software CurieOS supports for hardware development

CurieOS for hardware development works with CFD solvers (OpenFOAM and Ansys Fluent), 3D CAD (SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, CadQuery, build123d and Open CASCADE), system and thermal modeling tools (Modelica / OpenModelica and CoolProp), and component data from McMaster-Carr and the SWEP Calculation API.

CFD

3D CAD

  • Autodesk Inventor
  • build123d

System and thermal modeling

Component data

  • SWEP Calculation API

Also connects to

Notion, Google Workspace (Drive, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Calendar), Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive, Slack, Granola, GitHub, Linear, Weights & Biases, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Apollo, and Exa.

Common questions

What is CurieOS for hardware development?

CurieOS is an AI operating system for science and engineering teams, built by Orbital Industries. Hardware teams use it to run accelerated CFD across design variants, compare flow and thermal behavior across operating conditions, and carry results into design reviews and the next prototype.

Which CFD and CAD tools does CurieOS work with?

CurieOS works with OpenFOAM and Ansys Fluent for CFD; Autodesk Inventor, CadQuery, build123d, and Open CASCADE for 3D CAD; and Modelica / OpenModelica and CoolProp for system and thermal modeling.

What file formats can CurieOS open?

CurieOS opens STEP CAD models and other engineering files directly in the workspace, with no separate viewer needed.

How does CurieOS keep design decisions traceable?

CurieOS links requirements, simulation results, and test data in one workspace, and every change made by a person or an AI agent is logged with who made it and where it came from.

How is CurieOS different from ChatGPT or Claude?

General-purpose assistants return text. CurieOS works with engineering file formats and tools, shows results as visualizations, and lets you step through the inputs, equations, and intermediate values behind each calculation.

Connected across the lifecycle

One platform from chemistry to deployment.

A material screened by one team can be evaluated against hardware and deployment constraints by the next, without re-characterization or a six-month handoff. Orbital Industries runs its own programs this way.

  1. Chemistry

    PFAS-free coolant discovered

  2. Hardware · you are here

    Two-phase cooling plates designed

  3. Deployment

    Infrastructure engineered and deployed

Put your hardware workflows on CurieOS.

Tell us about the files, tools, and repeatable work your team wants to bring into one operating system.

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