Capabilities
- Experiment with operating conditions and scenarios
- Easily change system input data, including valve positions, compressor or fan operation, control set points, pressures, temperatures, and more
- Model a wide range of system components from handbook empirical sources, or input manufacturer data
- Simulate ideal or real gases
- Choose between isothermal, adiabatic or generalized heat transfer conditions
- Conduct flow analysis with high velocities including sonic choking
- Compile libraries of custom components, pipe materials, and fluids to save time, share common data among your team, and avoid input error
- Assemble non-reacting mixtures and analyze dynamic mixtures resulting from intersecting pipe flow streams
- Model rotating piping systems such as those found in steam and gas turbines
- Model effects of elevation changes such as in tall structures, subsurface mines and overland pipelines
- Evaluate codes and industry standards applied in the model
Benefits
- Understand the behavior of your system
- Predict how pipes, valves, compressors, fans and other components will interact with each other
- Evaluate the performance of new designs
- Assure all design requirements are met
- Identify and correct operational problems
- Produce less costly, more efficient, and more reliable piping systems
Applications
- Pipe and duct sizing
- Relief valve sizing and system calculations
- Compressor and fan sizing and selection
- Control valve sizing and selection
- Simulate system operation and component interaction
- Calculate choked flow
- Evaluate pipe insulation and heat transfer in pipes and heat exchangers
- Troubleshoot existing systems to determine the cause of operational problems
Features
- 2D flow diagram or isometric view interface
- Advanced solution methods provide highly accurate results
- Detailed modeling for fans and compressors, control valves, heat exchangers and other components
- Conduct compressor and fan energy cost analysis
- Thermal analysis including piping heat transfer and heat exchanger modeling
- Scenario Manager tracks all design variants and operational possibilities in a single model file
- Built-in libraries of fluids (including NIST REFPROP and ASME Steam Tables) and pipe fittings which can be extended and customized
- Chempak™ add-on utility provides a thermophysical database of almost 600 gases – allows you to define nonreacting pre-mixtures and simulate dynamic flow mixing
Data Integration
- Import piping layouts and dimensional data from GIS Shapefiles, CAESAR II Neutral Files, and PCF files from a wide range of sources
- Robust Excel integration to import and export data
Add-On Modules
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Goal Seek and Control (GSC)
Identifies input parameters that yield desired output values and simulates control functions
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Automated Network Sizing (ANS)
Automatically size your network to meet design requirements and minimize system cost
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Extended Time Simulation (XTS)
Models dynamic system behavior and how critical system parameters vary over time
How does it work?
AFT Arrow’s powerful solution engine simultaneously solves five fundamental equations; mass, momentum, energy, state and Mach number. It uses a modified Newton – Raphson matrix iteration method plus proprietary methods developed by AFT so you can achieve a true and rigorous compressible flow solution.
Formation
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