Flowmaster V7 General Systems

Flowmaster V7 is a CFD System Simulation tool used by a vast range of industries, enabling companies to reduce costs and development time and to maximise competitive advantage by designing better fluid and thermal systems from day one, often before any CAD or 3D data is available. Flowmaster is used many of todays leading global manufacturing, process, power, transport and water organisations to reduce costly changes and ultimately improve quality. Customers include: Boeing, BP, EADS, GE, Hitachi,

Siemens and Toyota.

Flowmaster V7 delivers you:

Powerful & Customisable System Modelling
Fast Drag-and-drop modelling method to build up systems in minutes. Customisable catalogues of components and data with which you can organise your models and data to suit the way your company works. Create composite components to group subsystems and simplify large complex models making it easy for others to use. Advanced Design Visualisation tools for organising networks and sub-systems onto layers giving you greater control over complex models. Background images can be added to convey your models workings with greater clarity to others.

Advanced simulation and validation tools

Steady state and transient simulations to calculate pressure, flow rate temperature and heat flow at any point around your liquid or gas system and for any type of system architecture; open/closed loop, branched etc. Large complex fluid systems can be analysed in a matter of minutes, enabling multiple what if scenarios to be investigated quickly and efficiently Component models underpinned by empirical data from extensive research into fluid flow characteristics by DS Miller

Secure and flexible data management

Secure access to relevant simulation data through a multi-user environment with controlled access from one central SQL database Audit trail technology to track design history changes and associated simulation data

Advanced Integration Options

Integrate fully with existing CAE, CFD and optimisation tools such as MATLAB, STAR-CD, FLUENT, iSIGHT, modeFRONTIER and Excel Incorporate in-house software tools whilst leveraging the power of Flowmaster

Intuitive to use interface and short learning curve

An advanced user interface, which identifies the correct and configuration and working environment to suit you An intuitive interface layout enabling early adoption and increased workflow Smart modelling tools to minimise human error and promote best practise

Flowmaster V7 General Systems

Key Modelling and Simulation Features in detail:
Large library of component models underpinned by empirical data from extensive research into fluid flow characteristics by DS Miller. Customisable component catalogues for allowing you to build up a list of your most used components. Intuitive graphical interface, with an optimised. layout to increase your workflow and provides a new user a shorter learning curve. Fast intelligent modelling tools which prevent the user from connecting incompatible components, and the use of colour coded data entry fields to highlight to the user required information, help to minimise errors before simulations are carried out Customisable component creation for building up a catalogue of components and subsystems specific to your company, even include your own images to represent the component in the model. Advanced design visualisation tools enable you to organise circuits, sub-systems onto layers giving you greater control over complex systems and enable you to view and convey your models with greater clarity. This can be further enhanced with the addition of background imagery. Transient and steady state simulation including; incompressible, compressible and heat transfer analysis options. Dynamic real time colour visualization of running simulations. As the simulation runs the network components change colour to indicate pressure and flow rates around the system. 2D and 3D graphical simulation display and automatic out putting of results to reports documents Flow balancing module for optimising component sizes around your system providing valuable cost savings and promoting greater performance efficiency. Audit trail & tracking of model history functionality keeps track of design changes and associated data, offering the designer a chance to roll back to previous versions, and quick compare results from different designs saving valuable modelling time. Project administration tools for setting various levels of access to project data for individual members within a project team. Non-western character support has been implemented for user input quantities. This will particularly benefit users of non-Latin alphabets supported by Microsoft Windows XP (including Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic, Japanese and Korean). This allows users around the world to input data such as custom data labels, node and component text, curve and equation label, and result set names etc. in their native language so that they may more easily refer to and communicate Flowmaster data.

Centrally held simulation data and captured knowledge.

Built upon a powerful SQL database, organisations have the ability to store, share and track project data faster and more securely than ever before allowing far greater collaboration across project teams. You can also capture and promote the sharing of knowledge gathered from experienced technical specialists, passing on Best Practices Methodologies to others in the organisation.

Seamless Integration with existing CAE and PLM systems

Flowmasters Open API structure allows you to integrate Flowmaster into your current systems setup and communicate data between your other CAE, manufacturing and optimisation tools enabling the organisation and supply chain to gain secure and fast access to relevant data. By linking Flowmaster into your PLM system, data and simulation reports are available at any given point along the development lifecycle, communicating a clear indication of a project status alongside all other processes leading to improved decision making.