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The KIVA family of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software predicts complex fuel and air flows as well as ignition, combustion, and pollutant-formation processes in engines.

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Download KIVA-4 Demo

KIVA-EXEC has all the performance of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s premier KIVA-4 code, but with a 45K cell limitation. To download a free, personal-use Linux-compatible (Red Hat recommended) executable version of KIVA-EXEC:

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