models, results, and performance data. Integration: Open APIs allow for the direct integration with product development tools and systems, including optimization codes, MATLAB and other CAE codes. Software Development Kit (SDK): A suite of tools that enable FloMASTER to be integrated with product development tools and systems, including optimization tools such as Optimus, Control Modeling tools such as Simulink and other CAE tools. Integration is facilitated through an open API which supports COM and .NET as well as through an embedded script editor which allows creation of native macros, scripts and plug-ins. 1D-3D CFD: Model-Based Design (MBD) and Simulation-Based Characterization (SBC) features that allow for modeling of components for which data is either difficult to obtain, or non-existent in a 1D sense, to be created. Examples include multi-arm junctions and non-standard ducts and bends. The SBC approach leads to a virtual ‘flow test bench’ inside the Mentor Graphics FloEFD 3D CFD tool to extend the FloMASTER component catalog. See also Internal Flow Systems Don Miller Waste Heat Recovery Model-Based Design Computational Fluid Dynamics References Companies based in Northamptonshire Science and technology in Northamptonshire Simulation software Software companies of the United Kingdom South Northamptonshire District