Liquids, Incompressible Flow

FLUIDFLOW

Liquid Module

Incompressible Flow

Over 1000 companies choose FluidFlow

Engineers globally trust FluidFlow to accurately model their systems and deliver their projects on time and within budget.

Simplified Fluid Flow Modeling

Comprehensive Modeling

Solve fundamental equations of conservation of mass, energy, and momentum effortlessly.

Precision in Pipe Pressure Loss Models

Ensure precision by selecting from three reliable pipe pressure loss models: Moody (Darcy-Weisbach), Hazen Williams, Fixed Friction Factor (Darcy), and Shell-MIT.

Features and Advantages

Comprehensive Fluid and Equipment Databases

Includes over 1,200 fluids and 800 equipment components, minimizing manual entry.
Easily add new fluids and components with detailed performance and limit information.
Includes resources for pipe materials, insulation, soil types, and manufacturer details.

Automatic Equipment Sizing Technology

FluidFlow’s powerful technology automatically sizes pipes, pumps, relief devices, and orifice plates to ISO and API standards. It recommends the most economical pipe sizes based on physical properties, equipment, and energy costs. Choose from sizing methods like Economic Velocity, Design Velocity, or Design Pressure Gradient for optimal results.

Heat Transfer Functionality

Enables heat transfer analysis across all modules, including heat exchangers, pipes, and junctions. With options for detailed heat loss/gain calculations, buried pipe calculations, fixed heat transfer rates, and fixed temperature changes, FluidFlow delivers flexibility and precision for accurate thermal modeling.

Dynamic Analysis

Use scripting for time-dependent simulations to analyze pressure changes, control strategies, pump performance, valve behavior, and the effects of scale build-up on flow rates.

Hydraulic System Optimization

Take a complete system modeling approach, considering the interaction and effect of connected pipes and fittings.
Comprehensive fluid and component databases enable rapid model development.
Perform both steady-state and simple dynamic simulations of piping systems. Choose from a number of pipe friction loss methods including Moody, Hazen-Williams, Fixed Friction Factor and Shell-MIT.

Evaluate pump performance, identify energy savings opportunities and increase equipment reliability.
Determine system operating pressures, flow distribution, control valve performance (Calculated Cv & % open), and fluid physical properties throughout the model.
Consider what-if scenarios, evaluate system performance under varying operating conditions and propose design alternative quickly.

Size pipes, pumps, valves, orifice plates, and safety relief devices to API and ISO standards.
Avoid over-sizing by accurately evaluating system performance.
Identify opportunities to improve existing systems through re-sizing.
Optimize capital and operational costs with precise sizing.

Fully customizable reports for effective communication to colleagues, clients and peer review.
Customize flowsheet to visually communicate key results and design information.
Get feedback from colleagues or customers on key decisions, make design changes and evaluate results in real time.
Maintain a transparent design audit trail, ensuring a record of all design decisions, even as personnel change.

Sample Systems

01 Vendor Pump Performance Curves

Optimize Pump Performance & Efficiency
Model vendor pump data and visualize performance curves to pinpoint the exact duty point where system and pump capacity curves intersect.
Analyze key metrics like operating efficiency, NPSHa, NPSHr, and duty head requirements for precise pump selection and optimization.

Sample Systems

02 Closed Loop Systems

Sample Systems

03 Liquid Modeling of an LNG Storage Delivery System:

Design and optimize LNG storage and delivery systems with FluidFlow, ensuring precise liquid flow modeling and estimation of physical properties at every point in the network, regardless of flow conditions.
In this system, FluidFlow was used to model the liquid transfer lines, identifying points where LNG may vaporize. This allows engineers to mitigate phase change risks, enhancing system efficiency and reliability.