FluidFlow’s software for incompressible liquid flow provides a robust solution for engineers and designers working with various fluid systems. It delivers fast and accurate designs for Newtonian fluids, determines system operating pressures and flow distribution, and allows for the modeling of a wide range of line equipment items. Users can choose from three pipe pressure loss models as follows: 1) Moody (Darcy-Weisbach), 2) Hazen Williams or 3) Fixed Friction Factor (Darcy).

From Design to Communication: Seamlessly Model, Analyze, Size, and Report with FluidFlow’s Versatile Applications
Design: Utilize a comprehensive system modeling approach, incorporating the effects of connected pipes and fittings to enable both steady-state and dynamic simulations.
Analyze: Evaluate pump performance, identify energy-saving opportunities, and determine system operating pressures and flow distribution.
Size: Accurately size pipes, pumps, control valves, and safety relief devices to avoid over-sizing and optimize system performance.
Communicate: Generate fully customizable reports and flowsheets to effectively communicate design results and facilitate peer reviews and client feedback while creating a clear and transparent design audit trail.

FluidFlow’s gas compressible flow module is designed to handle the complexities of gas piping systems, where variables like pressure, temperature, density, and velocity constantly change. The software uses detailed calculations to provide accurate solutions without simplifying assumptions. Available equations of state include: Benedict-Webb-Rubin, Peng-Robinson, Lee Kesler.

From Design to Communication: Seamlessly Model, Analyze, Size, and Report with FluidFlow’s Versatile Applications
Design: Solve complex gas/vapor flow systems, ensuring accurate designs for both low and high velocity flows and considering the Joule-Thomson effect.
Analyze: Employ specific gas calculation procedures, account for changes in physical properties throughout the piping network, and automatically detect choked flow conditions.
Size: Model gas regulators, size safety relief valves to API and ISO standards, and consider various pipe and duct geometries.
Communicate: Generate fully customizable reports and flowsheets to effectively communicate design results and facilitate peer reviews and client feedback while creating a clear and transparent design audit trail.

FluidFlow’s slurry and non-Newtonian flow module is designed to handle complex fluids such as slurries, pastes, and concentrated solid suspensions, commonly encountered in industries like mining, food processing, and pharmaceuticals. The Slurry Module can be used to model settling or non-settling non-Newtonian fluids as well as Pulp & Paper Stock Flow Systems.

From Design to Communication: Seamlessly Model, Analyze, Size, and Report with FluidFlow’s Versatile Applications.
Design: Create robust slurry pipelines by modeling heterogeneous settling slurries, non-Newtonian slurries, and complex slurry flows. The module supports the calculation of system pressure losses using multiple methods and considers solids derating for pumps, ensuring optimal design for mining, pulp, and paper systems.
Analyze: Study pipeline velocities relative to deposition velocity to prevent particle settling and pipe blockage. The software helps determine slurry physical properties throughout the system and identifies operational issues, allowing for effective solutions and highlighting potential problem areas such as saltation.
Size: Utilize the rapid pump sizing function to ensure efficient and reliable pump operation. The module enables precise determination of pipe sizes and the development of Hydraulic and Energy Grade Line (EGL/HGL) plots, aiding in the evaluation of pump performance in long-distance distribution lines.
Communicate: Generate fully customizable reports and flowsheets to effectively communicate design results and facilitate peer reviews and client feedback while creating a clear and transparent design audit trail.