Proper system integration of air conditioning systems by suppliers and OEM’s is vital in maintaining acceptable performance characteristics as cost and packaging constraints are imposed. Physical testing of design changes is expensive and time consuming. Flomaster allows you to design and optimize your system during the early stages of design to optimize component selection and overall system design.

The modern automotive exhaust system is critical in enabling powertrain systems to meet their performance, efficiency, weight and packaging targets. However, during the vehicle development process, it is the exhaust system that is often left until the very end to design. Using Flomaster, you can model entire systems from the engine to the rear silencer/muffler and subsequently run simulations under real operating conditions to accurately predict pressures, losses, flow rates and other performance parameters for a given design.

Hydraulic systems are becoming ever more sophisticated with complex assemblies of electronic, hydraulic and mechanical components. It is vital that these systems are cost efficient but remain within tight performance and safety regulations. Systems must work correctly first time, requiring engineers to have at hand detailed and accurate information about system performance. Flomaster enables you to analyze system level models of aircraft hydraulic systems at the concept stage of the design process. The performance of these models can aid in focusing and more tightly defining physical tests.

Flomaster allows gas turbine designers to get an understanding of secondary air flows, blade cooling, lubrication, and fuel systems accurately early in the process. For secondary air flows it is a powerful tool for engineers to understand the effects of swirl and heat transfer within and throughout the cavity. Flomaster is able to deliver accurate results for complicated fluid networks under high centripetal forces making it an extremely capable design tool for those involved in the design of lubrication systems or blade cooling within gas turbine engines.

Fossil fuels remain the most common energy source of power for electricity generation, globally. However, concerns over emissions and operating cost demand that the systems become ever more complex. Flomaster allows you to understand the interaction of steam and flue gas systems and aids the design of efficient plan operation. FloMASTER’s advanced two-phase solver enables you to model the entire Rankine cycle giving you accurate pressure drop and heat transfer predictions for your systems.

Renewable energy generation is a rapidly evolving and growing field. Flomaster has proven itself as a valuable tool for evaluating performance of a number of novel generation and power storage schemes thanks to its accurate solver and open architecture.

The laws of thermodynamics make it clear that where we use heat to generate power, there will always be a proportion rejected to a cold sink. Cooling networks can be extremely complex, vary widely in scale and design but they are always critical to the safe and continued use of the installation they support. The design of such networks is thus fundamental to the safe operation of systems. Flomaster was designed from the outset to aid the design of cooling water networks.

The accuracy of the empirical data that underpins the solver ensures that designers can be sure they’re sizing their system based on the best information available. The transient solver enables designers to understand the response of their system to changing loads and demands and identify where water hammer is a real risk.

The transportation and handling of gas is an issue present in many industrial processes. These gases may be at elevated temperatures, high flow rates, toxic or any combination of the above. Therefore it is not only essential to understand any proposed network well in order to design the most efficient plant, it is also an absolute requirement for establishing a safe operating environment. Flomaster enables engineers to build virtual prototypes of their pipelines, enabling components to be sized, different configurations assessed, insulation requirements judged and safety critical scenarios evaluated. Its compressible solver can handle both real and ideal gas models and is complemented by a comprehensive NIST database of fluid properties.

Fire mains form the backbone of firefighting strategies for sea going vessels and process plants of any appreciable size. From a hydraulic perspective, they bring together three elements (scale, flow-rate and short response time) that makes them particularly vulnerable to water hammer. Flomaster enables designers to accurately predict the performance of both open and closed loop systems in steady state and transient. Flow rates to different points of the network can be easily balanced and – if required – surge alleviation measure evaluated and sized.

Often containing many miles of pipework transporting high and low pressure liquids and gases, the design of sea going vessels demands that designers understand fluid system performance across a range of operating points and during emergencies. Flomaster facilitates the rapid design of all types of fluid systems on board marine vessels including engine cooling, fire mains, chilled & potable water, ballast, and fuel systems.