United StatesConstruction and engineering2025 – ongoingKiewit Corporation
Generative AI scripts for computational fluid dynamics workflows
Kiewit reported up to 90% less development time for AI-assisted CFD input scripting
Problem
Simulation engineers performed repetitive work to prepare computational fluid dynamics input files. This slowed modeling and feasibility studies.
Approach
Kiewit's Advanced Computer Modeling team used ChatGPT Enterprise and Copilot in engineering workflows. Engineers prompted AI to generate Python scripts that simplified CFD input-file creation. The team applied these methods to tunnel ventilation and data-center cooling projects.
Results
Takeaway
The reported saving concerned script and input-file development. Kiewit did not report an equivalent reduction in total engineering project time.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Construction and engineering
- Business function
- IT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Kiewit's engineering abstract described existing use of generative AI in simulation workflows. It claimed development-time reductions of as much as 90% from generating Python scripts for CFD input files.
Full details are in the original sources.