“[We] would think that any company that deals with the movement of any type of gas would benefit from the use of [CFD] technologies. Whether they are trying to map the movement of air, track the migration of particles within the airstream, optimize their systems or just verify [existing] product …

“In the past manufacturers could not implement a design feature such as a very small outflow angle geometry because fabricating this kind of feature was very labor intensive. Manufacturers could not justify the reduced manufacturing productivity and increased cost compared to the performance improvement."