Doriflow Engine

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What is Doriflow?

Doriflow Engine is a high-performance GPU-based fluid solver built for Blender users, simulation engineers, VFX artists, and 3D hobbyists. It delivers fast, realistic fluid simulations with physics-based floating objects, detailed whitewater effects, and support for complex interactions.

Built with multi-threading in mind, Doriflow intelligently leverages both GPU and CPU resources for efficient performance across various systems. The engine is now available on both Windows and macOS.

Doriflow bridges the gap between the 3D creative community and traditional industry-standard solvers, which are often expensive, overcomplicated, or inaccessible. Instead, Doriflow offers a lightweight and production-ready alternative tailored to real creative workflows.

💡 Try Doriflow for Free – Download the Demo
💬 Have questions? Check our FAQ page
🎥 Get inspired by examples in our Showcase Playlist
📚 Ready to start? Follow our Tutorial Series to learn how to set up simulations step by step
📖 For deeper learning of fluid simulation, visit our comprehensive documentation and benchmarks
🧠 For detailed explanations and examples of all simulation settings, visit the Doriflow Wiki page
💸 One-time purchase with lifetime support – no subscriptions, no hidden costs.

Features

1. Fluid-Structure Interaction (Floating Materials)  

Doriflow replicates the complex interaction between fluids and solid structures using real physics-based algorithms. This allows objects to float, tilt, submerge, and respond naturally to flow conditions - making it ideal for environmental simulations, engineering previews, and any scenario requiring realistic buoyant behaviour. 

2. GPU-Powered Engine

Harness the full power of CUDA-based NVIDA GPUs to achieve massive speed improvements over CPU solvers, Doriflow supports scalable performance, making it suitable for large, complex scenes that require fast, responsive iterations - especially when combining fluids with cloth, rigid, and soft bodies.

3. Granular Material Simulation (DEM-Based)

Doriflow now includes support for granular materials using DEM. Simulate realistic behaviours of sand, soil, grains and debris with accurate collision response, stacking, and dispersion. Ideal for environmental simulations, material transport and particulate motion studies. 

4. Soft Cloth & Soft Body Dynamics

Doriflow enables stable real-time simulation of cloth, soft bodies, and deformable materials. This solver is designed for complex multi-physics scenes where fluids, rigid bodies and soft materials interact seamlessly, offering creative flexibility and physical realism for both VFX and engineering use cases. 

5. Whitewater Particle Simulation - Foam, Bubbles, Spray 

Doriflow automatically generates whitewater effects such as foam, bubbles, and spray based on local fluid surface curvature and flow velocity. These particles follow the fluid's motion, enhancing visual realism and making it possible to represent turbulence, splashes, and vortex patterns like von Karman vortex streets. 

What you can do with Doriflow

Doriflow is built for 3D artists, engineers, and academic researchers who need a fast, accurate and scalable fluid simulation directly beside Blender. Doriflow integrates natively with Blender's rendering engine, allowing you to combine ray-traced visual quality with true computational fluid dynamics - all in one intuitive environment.

You could be:

Professional VFX Artists Create realistic fluid motion, whitewater, and floating interactions with fast, intuitive controls. Doriflow delivers physically accurate results without the complexity of traditional solvers - perfect for VFX, animation, and motion design.
Engineers & Academics

With Doriflow, you can test large or complex scenes locally on your GPU before committing to HPC (high-performance computing) resources - saving time, reducing costs, and catching errors earlier in your pipeline. It’s ideal for:

  • Visualising complex fluid interactions, such as turbulence, drag, or vortex shedding

  • Communicating simulations to both technical and non-technical audiences
Researchers with real-world applications 

Use Doriflow for applied simulation in:

  • Climate change modelling (e.g. flooding, storm surge, sea level rise)
  • Urban planning and infrastructure design (e.g. drainage, flood resilience) 
  • Marine waste collection and water flow analysis
  • Sustainable water system planning

By visualising difference scenarios, engineers can better understand, plan, and mitigate real-world challenges. 

The most powerful GPU Simulator - all in one! 

Other simulation engines are either costly, limited in scope, or locked behind subscriptions. Doriflow offers a powerful, GPU-accelerated solver at a one-time price, making it one of the best-value fluid simulation tools available for Blender users, researchers and engineers alike.

✅ With your purchase of Doriflow, you get unlimited access, no subscriptions, no hidden modules, and lifetime updates included.

✅ What You Get:

  • Multi-Domain Solver Access - run complex scenes combining fluids, rigid bodies, soft bodies, and cloth, all in one
  • Whitewater Particle Effects - built-in foam, spray, and bubbles for enhanced realism
  • Physics-based Floating & Interaction - simulate buoyant and interactive materials with real constraint solving

  • Preset scenes - pre-configured setups to help you learn and explore Doriflow quickly

  • Access to All Future Updates - lifetime access to new features and engine improvements

How is Doriflow different from other solvers?


Flexible GPU and CPU Utilisation

Unlike many solvers that rely strictly on CPU or lock you into limited GPU support, Doriflow intelligently balances GPU acceleration (CUDA-based) and multi-threaded CPU execution. This ensures:

  • Better performance across a wide range of hardware (from laptops to workstations)
  • Efficient simulations without needing to upgrade your system
  • More fluid scalability for large scenes
Commitment to industry standards

Doriflow is engineered to align with industry-standard benchmarks for 3D artists, academic researchers and engineers. Doriflow prioritises: 

  • Physics accuracy - fluid–structure interaction, constraint resolution
  • Multi-domain compatibility - rigid bodies, soft bodies, cloth, fluid, foam in one solver
  • Use cases beyond entertainment - ideal for simulation engineers, academic visualisation, and interactive tools
One time purchase with life-time support

Most professional-grade solvers either come with recurring subscription fees or require buying additional modules (e.g. for whitewater or object interaction). Doriflow instead offers a transparent, one-time purchase with: 

  • Lifetime access to updates
  • Ongoing support from a responsive team
  • A cost-effective alternative for indie creators, educators, and studios who want power without lock-in 

System requirements

  • Windows or MacOS
  • Blender 4.0 onwards
  • NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 10.0 (at least 5GB VRAM)
  • Intel Core i5 or higher, AMD Ryzen 5 or higher

Release Notes

The latest version of the Doriflow engine is V1.3.1. Release notes can be found here. 

Contact Us

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    Published over 2 years ago
    Blender Version 4.0 - 5.0
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