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The Rise of the First Commercial CFD Codes: PHOENICS, FLUENT, FIDAP, CFX, FLOW-3D, and STAR-CD

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The CFD code development group at Imperial College headed by D.B. Spalding began multiphase flow modeling in the mid- and late 1970s [1].

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Lyczkowski, R.W. (2018). The Rise of the First Commercial CFD Codes: PHOENICS, FLUENT, FIDAP, CFX, FLOW-3D, and STAR-CD. In: The History of Multiphase Science and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66502-3_14

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