Fluid Library
AnyLogic is fluid simulation software for modeling the transportation, storage, and processing of bulk materials, fluids, and a large number of discrete items of any complexity.
Design and Optimize With Fluid Simulation Software
Drive measurable performance improvements across fluid and bulk material handling, storage, and transportation with fluid simulation software.
Fluid Simulation Software: Real Operations in a Risk-Free Environment
Build simulation models and digital twins that replicate real-world fluid systems with intuitive drag-and-drop library elements. Define flow logic, monitor system behavior in 2D, and bring operations to life with 3D visualization of your choice.
Solve Complex Fluid System Challenges
Fluid simulation software empowers you to model and optimize the flow of liquids and bulk materials across industrial networks from production and storage to transportation and distribution.
Design and analyze pipeline systems for liquid distribution.
Capture production rates across facilities and track flow variations over time.
Model storage facilities, tanks, and reservoirs to evaluate throughput, capacity utilization, and limits.
Optimize bulk material handling in conveyors and loading and unloading systems.
Assess network capacity, detect bottlenecks, and schedule batches efficiently.
Predict breakdowns and simulate maintenance impacts on overall performance.
Why AnyLogic as a Fluid Simulation Software?
AnyLogic empowers businesses to turn ideas into action: faster decisions, lean operations, and measurable productivity gains, all in one simulation platform. AnyLogic allows fluid processes to interact directly with other operational processes and systems in the same model.
Digital twin implementation
Create dynamic, data-connected digital twins of your operations to monitor real-time performance, anticipate future states, test decisions, and continuously optimize outcomes. Digital twins in AnyLogic provide you with a virtual playground for exploring possible future scenarios.
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Cloud deployment
Run, share, and scale your simulations in the Cloud, publicly or privately. Our Cloud platform supports parallel execution, collaborative modeling, and seamless API access to integrate with enterprise systems and build custom applications around your models. AnyLogic is the only simulation vendor with a fully functional Cloud solution.
Learn moreEnterprise simulation
Turn simulation into a core enterprise capability. Embed simulation models directly into business processes, connecting them with enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, and BI tools.
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Simulation + AI
Enhance your models with AI capabilities. Use simulation to generate synthetic data, apply reinforcement learning models, and use an AI-driven assistant to help you build simulation models.
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Connect, extend, and integrate without limits. AnyLogic is designed as an open platform that seamlessly integrates with your existing technology stack, data sources, and enterprise systems.
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Choose your 3D level of detail
Make your models as detailed as you like. Benefit from AnyLogic’s built-in 3D capabilities. When needed, use the official AnyLogic-NVIDIA Omniverse integration that allows simulation modelers to create photorealistic animation.
Learn moreMultimethod simulation
Model any manufacturing or warehouse systems and processes efficiently, without compromise. Combine main simulation methods and different AnyLogic libraries in unified models and switch seamlessly between different levels of abstraction.
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Discover and Combine AnyLogic Libraries
AnyLogic provides you with six built-in libraries for the most popular domains and use cases. Combine their intuitive drag-and-drop elements to accurately model the logic, constraints, and dynamics of your real-world systems. All within a single simulation environment.
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Process Modeling Library
To model operational workflows across industries
Material Handling Library
To model and optimize material flows in factories, warehouses, and more
Explore Models Built With the Fluid Library
The Oil Terminal model is one of many examples demonstrating how the Fluid Library can be used to simulate complex fluid flow and storage operations across industries.
This model represents the processes of an oil terminal, including railroad platforms receiving and discharging oil products, storage tanks managing different oil types, and tankers loading and shipping fuel.
Fluid Simulation Software
in Action: Industry Examples
See how fluid simulation software is transforming real operations. From the oil industry to mining, businesses use AnyLogic to eliminate bottlenecks, improve throughput, optimize schedules, and much more.
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Fluid Simulation Software
Check out our materials to see the impact of fluid simulation software and best practices in action.
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Dynamic modeling of a stratified heat storage
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Talk to our team and see how you can model, test, and improve your fluid and bulk flow operations with AnyLogic.
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Download the free AnyLogic Personal Learning Edition and discover how fluid simulation software can help you model, analyze, and optimize complex systems to increase efficiency, reliability, and performance.
FAQs About Fluid Simulation Software
Fluid simulation software allows you to model, analyze, and optimize the flow of liquids and bulk materials within complex systems such as pipelines, storage facilities, and processing networks.
It is widely used in industries like oil and gas, energy, chemicals, mining, agriculture, food production, and logistics, anywhere fluid or bulk material flow needs to be managed and optimized.
It helps identify bottlenecks, optimize throughput, improve capacity utilization, evaluate infrastructure design, simulate breakdowns, and test operational strategies without real-world risks.
Yes, it is often used to build digital twins of real systems, enabling continuous monitoring, scenario testing, and data-driven decision-making.
AnyLogic combines fluid modeling with discrete-event and agent-based simulation, allowing you to capture both physical flow dynamics and operational processes within a single model.
Basic models can be built using drag-and-drop elements, but advanced customization and logic can be added with coding for more complex scenarios.
