Where is Flownex used?
Flownex is a system and sub-system simulation tool used to design and integrate thermal hydraulic systems.
Flownex enables engineers to predict, design and optimise for; flow rates, pressures, temperatures, and heat transfer rates in any fluid system.
Flownex can design and optimize closed and open loop flow and heat transfer systems with any amount of branching flows (diverging and converging) and inlets and outlets. Such systems include anything from ventilation systems, water and gas distribution systems up to boiler designs and complete power generation cycles.
What sets Flownex apart?Simultaneous simulation and integration of:
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Flownex’s key features are:
- Powerful Graphical User Interface.
- Variety of fluid models – gasses, liquids, gas mixture or two-phase fluids.
- Ability to simultaneously solve multiple gas and liquid networks that are connected through heat exchangers.
- Ability to perform both steady-state and dynamic analyses.
- Ability to deal with both fast and slow transients.
- Fast, accurate and robust implicit solver that is optimized for both steady-state and transient flows.
- Ability to perform real time simulations.
- Fundamental principle approach that allows the prediction of phenomena such as choking, natural convection and Joule heating.
- Heat transfer through solid structures.
- Easy and flexible user interface.
- Model builder that enables users to build advanced discretized re-usable models of complex components or sub-systems such as heat exchangers and gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
- Different units of measure.
- Powerful graphical output.
- Interface to control software e.g. Matlab, Simulink and UNAC.
- Restart functionality.
- Event editor for specification of operator actions such as opening and closing of valves.