Last updated: 2025-10-06 2 min read

UVSim3D is specialized software for calculating the UV irradiance distribution inside UV/VUV reactors. It helps water treatment engineers to:

What you can do with it

  • Predict UV Fluence Rate: calculate the UV fluence delivered at any point inside a reactor
  • Optimize lamp layout: design lamp positions for maximum disinfection efficiency
  • Evaluate reactor performance: compare performance across different configurations
  • Couple with CFD: compute accurate UV dose through CFD integration

Key features

  • Multiple lamp configurations (low-pressure LP and medium-pressure MP lamps supported)
  • Multi-wavelength modeling (185nm–300nm and user-defined wavelengths)
  • Large-scale simulation (handles tens of millions of mesh points)
  • Industry-standard file formats (VTU, VTKHDF, CGNS)
  • CFD UDF support (UDFs for integration with commercial and open-source CFD codes)
  • Python wrapper (for Python users' convenience)

For installation and a first run, see the getting started guide.