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Flownex® Simulation Environment (SE) delivers technology that enables you to study how flow and heat transfer systems will behave in the real world, where fluid is the driving factor. Flownex® SE system simulation relays the overall effect of changing specific properties on components, allowing you to extensively examine all possible variations in the design and optimization phases of systems.
Investigate into ducting design, refrigeration cycles with complicated refrigeration or costing calculations
Flownex® SE includes a comprehensive component library for analyzing large custom HVAC systems. This enables engineers to quantify conditions through the entire HVAC system in both steady state and transient operation. Furthermore, Flownex® SE contains the complex fluid models needed to simulate accident scenarios and help engineers prove the safety of their designs.
HVAC SYSTEM
Perform integrated system analysis including design and modelling of pipe systems, valves, turbomachinery, and other oil and gas related applications.
Flownex SE provides the engineers the quick and robust way to deal with complex large hydraulic networks in steady-state and transient way. Design of gas distribution systems, sizing of valves and orifices, flow balancing, analysis of transient events are the basic application of Flownex SE.
DRILLING MUD PUMPING SYSTEMS FOR GAS WELLS
Flownex® SE can be utilized for modelling fuel and hydraulic systems, gas turbines and assists with the design of Environmental Control and Life Support Systems.
ROCKET ENGINE
Gain a better understanding into the dynamic behavior of nuclear cycles
Flownex® SE enables system level modeling of nuclear plant fluid mechanics, heat transfer and neutronic response in both transient and steady state.
Model turbine secondary flow systems, combustion, flow and heat transfer.
Flownex® SE provides turbomachinery engineers with an easy to use, off-the-shelf tool for modelling combustion chambers, secondary air systems, blade cooling flows, lubrication systems with oil-air mixtures, as well as overall cycle integration and operation.
INTEGRATED SYSTEM ANALYSIS
Analyze the highly complex and interconnected components of space propulsion systems
From rapid rocket engine cycle designs to detailed component development: Flownex® SE has the capability to model and simulate large interconnected rocket engine systems. Using Flownex® SE, pre-burners with complex combustion reactions can be simulated, flow control strategies can be investigated, turbopumps with real-time power matching can be implemented and much more.
Today more sophisticated rockets have been developed, such as the SpaceX Raptor engine. Different liquid rocket cycles have been designed in the past few decades: improving efficiency, power, and safety. This has led to time consuming and costly physical testing and design calculations. To reduce R&D cost and development time, 1D system simulation can be incorporated into the design process.
Minimise time-to-production and speed up commissioning by determining beforehand the energy consumption of a process.
Solve fundamental physics of flow and heat transfer.
Flownex® SE Simulation Environment is a powerful research tool and classroom teaching aid used to demonstrate the physical principles in the fields of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. Flownex® SE determines pressure drop and heat transfer for the connected components of a complete system in steady state and transient, e.g. pumps or compressors, pipes, valves, tanks and heat exchangers.
Material on Bernoulli’s principle provides a fundamental explanation of energy conservation in fluid flow and the causes and effects of pressure loss. While the transfer though flat and cylindrical geometries is illustrated by Conduction and the change in temperature with pressure is fundamentally explained by the Joule – Thomson effect.
Solve mass, momentum and energy in conjunction with two-phase fluid properties for system models.
As increased energy efficiency becomes more critical in all forms of power generation, new cycles are being considered by many industries to replace the traditional Rankine cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is currently being considered as a potential successor due to a wide range of advantages, such as a reduced physical footprint, the ability to respond faster to load changes and increased thermal efficiency. Flownex® SE is an ideal tool for engineers to use throughout the development of these new power cycles.
sCO2 CYCLE
Design and analysis of hydrogen applications: from fuel cells to the electrolysis of water.
With pressure on industries to move to zero emissions, a strong focus has been put on the research and development of hydrogen applications for decarbonization. The European Union, and others for example, want to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. One way of doing this is to implement technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity. Green Hydrogen, where renewable energy is used to generate hydrogen from water using a process called electrolysis, is one of the main sources of carbon free energy currently being researched.
Design and evaluate flow and heat transfer systems by using advanced thermo-fluid modelling and co-simulation capabilities.
As the demand for mission critical data centres increases the need for the validation of thermal management systems is continuously increasing. Advancements in simulation now make it possible to evaluate and optimise thermal management systems providing data centre operators with more efficient and robust cooling solutions. Flownex® SE provides engineers with an ideal system simulation tool for the analysis and optimisation of data centre thermal management systems.
Flownex® SE has proved itself as an excellent tool in energy optimisation, slurry modelling, ventilation systems or any other mining-related system simulations.
MINE VENTILATION
Optimise plant performance by modelling steam circuits, cooling water circuits, boilers, turbines, heat exchangers and other auxiliary plant systems.
COMBINED CYCLE PLANT
Flownex® SE determines the pressure drop and heat transfer of interconnected components in a complete system both in steady state or transient simulations.
Flownex® SE is developed within an ISO 9001:2015 quality management system that is ASME NQA-1 compliant.
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FOSSIL FUEL POWER STATION
Basic Thermal Fluid Models
This module includes the ability to simulate both liquids and gasses, adiabatic flows, as well as flows with basic heat transfer in steady-state approach. The flow component models included in the basic version are reservoirs, pipes, ducts, pumps, fans, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, valves and orifices. This module allows to use numerous visualisation components, graphs, text outputs, result layers, data logging, and Excel result exports, as well as the ability to create compound components.
Advanced Fluid Thermal Module
This configuration includes advanced features such as gas mixtures, homogeneous two-phase flow, coupled convective and conductive heat transfer through solid structures as well as a special library of rotating components used in the design of turbomachinery. It also includes combustion modelling, Script elements for custom functionality and the built-in Excel workbook component.
Design & Analysis Module
This configuration includes advanced analysis features such as the designer routine, optimization routines, and stochastic routines used in probabilistic analyses (Sensitivity Analyses, Parametric Studies).
Transient Module
This module allows:
TEMPERATURE CONTROL LOOP DESIGN
Flownex® SE is able to couple to a range of Ansys products which opens a new frontier in co-simulation. This gives users the ability to simulate complete and integrated engineering systems quickly and accurately.
State of the art fluid models in Flownex® SE can accurately model 1D flow and 2D heat transfer. This can be used to replace 1D flow in 3D flow simulations: in doing so mesh sizes can be reduced and solving times can be drastically decreased. Flownex® SE contains component models ideal for modeling large, interconnected systems and can be coupled to 3D simulations to transfer the change in component performance to a change in overall system performance.
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