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 uses nodes and elements to represent a thermal-fluid network graphically as shown in the following figure.
Elements are components such as pipes, pumps, valves, compressors or heat exchangers, while nodes are the end points of elements. Elements can be connected in any arbitrary way at common nodes to form a network. Flownex solves the momentum equation in each element and the continuity and energy equation at each node. This gives Flownex a pseudo CFD capability, which allows it to predict complex phenomena such as pressure and temperature waves in pipes and buoyancy effects in packed beds.
Although components may be represented on the systems level as a single entity they may in actual fact be complex sub-networks. The main network with embedded sub-networks are treated as one large network in the solution algorithm.
