The Pipe Flow Expert Software can be used to model pipe systems with just a few pipes through to more complex systems with many hundreds of pipes. Find out how the Pipe Flow Expert Piping Design Software can help you (just like it helps other professional engineers in over 100 countries worldwide).
The Pipe Flow Wizard Software Calculator can be used to find flow rate, pressure drop, pipe size, or pipe length, based on a single pipe calculation. Find out how the Pipe Flow Wizard Single Pipe Calculator can help you perform calculations on a single length of pipe, saving you time & effort, and improving the reliability of your calculated results.
The Pipe Flow Advisor Software can be used to calculate flow rates in open channels, work out tank empty times, and find volume of different shapes. Find out how the Pipe Flow Advisor Software for Channel & Tanks can help you with your channel, tank, and volume calculations.
Well, as a software application for modeling pipe system flows and pressure drops you'll find it hard to beat. It can model both open loop and closed loop piping systems, with multiple supply tanks and discharge points, multiple pumps in parallel or pumps in series, and it comes with its own pipe database, fittings database and fluids database. And most important of all, it is easy to use, taking the pressure out of piping design, pipe flow calculations, and pipe pressure drop analysis.
Use Pipe Flow Expert to document your design, provide a standard method of pipe system analysis for your engineers, provide your sales engineers with a powerful visual aid that will help them close sales and give your customers confidence in your solution.
No other piping design software makes it as easy as Pipe Flow Expert does to get up and running quickly, with over 30 example pipe systems, a Quick Start User Guide, a full reference User Guide, and an amazingly intuitive and easy-to-use interface, you'll be saving time and effort right from the start.
If your work involves designing or sizing pipe work, calculating pump head requirements or trying to find the flows and pressure losses throughout a pipe network then rest assured that we understand how difficult your job can be.
Not knowing the answer to a question asked by a client, or worse, giving the wrong answer can lose you a customer and put you and your company under pressure. However, now there is an easy way to calculate the flows and pressures in your pipe system- get Pipe Flow Expert.
Pipe Flow Expert has a robust and reliable calculation engine that "solves" your system according to the governing laws of flow continuity and energy conservation. The final flow and pressure results are verified by a second algorithm that re-calculates the pressure at each node based on the pressure at each connected node minus the pressure loss through the connecting pipe for the given flow result.
This verification process checks that the pressure results at each node calculate to the same value irrespective of which path through the network is used for the calculation, and hence this validation confirms the accurate solution of the pipe network.
It will solve both open and closed loop systems with multiple pumps in series or in parallel. It can handle multiple supply tanks and in-flows, multiple discharge points and take-offs, multiple components and fittings, including bespoke items with their own flow versus pressure loss data, and in addition it can cater for up to 9 different fluid zones within a system (but it does not calculate two-phase flow; the user must specify the fluid density and viscosity data for each fluid zone, or select a fluid from the built in fluid database).
Our Pipe Flow Expert fluid flow analysis software will allow you to design, troubleshoot and optimize your fluid piping systems by providing a clear view of how your piping system operates. Pipe Flow Expert provides insightful visual results and solutions to even the most complex piping systems.
When the piping design is solved the solution values are shown on the pipe schematic and the units to be displayed for any particular calculations, such as flows, pressure, friction losses, etc, can be chosen individually. Whether you are in the USA, Europe, Africa or Australia, you can select your local unit of choice for any item.
Users get to see the calculated results on the actual pipe system drawing where the color coding and graphical representation of the piping model gives them an instant visual analysis of their piping design, the flow rates, the pressure losses, and the operating points of their pumps.
Pipes and nodes can be drawn against a color gradient that is specified for a particular calculation, such as the volume of flow in a pipe, the pressure drop in a pipe, the friction loss in a pipe or other results data, making it easy to highlight and instantly see any problem areas.
When the user wants to see the calculation results in a tabulated list, the PipeFlow Expert results can be viewed on the Results Grid in spreadsheet format. The Results Grid and the Pipe System Drawing are interactive and clicking on an element in one of these causes the same element to be highlighted on the other. This makes it very easy to analyse individual items and problem areas within a piping design. The software provides an easy 'select and zoom to' capability that allows selection of a row on the Results Grid and instant 'Zoom to' functionality, which displays and shows the selected item in the centre of the pipe system drawing.
All of the data from the Results Grid can be instantly exported to Microsoft Excel with one click of the mouse. This allows client customisation of results data and bespoke report formatting, together with the additional ability to use Excel mathematical functions on a range of values, such as for summing friction losses or energy losses through a group of pipes.
Pipe Flow Expert can generate a professional customized PDF report that documents your pipe system design. With just a few mouse clicks the user can choose to include your company logo on the report cover sheet, select which types of pipe system data to generate, and select individual pipe results data to display in tables.
It is almost impossible to accurately solve even a small pipe network using hand or spreadsheet calculations, even if you are a mathematics genius, simply because of the complexity and the number of mathematical iterations that are required to converge to a verifiable solution.
Pipe Flow Expert takes the pressure out of performing fluid flow calculations, using it's advanced modeling and calculation engine it will solve the steady state balanced condition for the flows and pressures throughout your pipe system.
In fluid mechanics, pipe flow is a type of liquid flow within a closed conduit, such as a pipe or tube. The other type of flow within a conduit is open channel flow. These two types of flow are similar in many ways, but differ in one important aspect. Pipe flow does not have a free surface which is found in open-channel flow. Pipe flow, being confined within closed conduit, does not exert direct atmospheric pressure, but does exert hydraulic pressure on the conduit.
Not all flow within a closed conduit is considered pipe flow. Storm sewers are closed conduits but usually maintain a free surface and therefore are considered open-channel flow. The exception to this is when a storm sewer operates at full capacity, and then can become pipe flow.
Energy in pipe flow is expressed as head and is defined by the Bernoulli equation. In order to conceptualize head along the course of flow within a pipe, diagrams often contain a hydraulic grade line (HGL). Pipe flow is subject to frictional losses as defined by the Darcy-Weisbach formula.
Pipe Flow Expert Software is used by engineers in over 75 countries worldwide to design energy efficient pumping and piping systems. The Pipe Flow Expert Software is used to Model Pipe Networks and Calculate Flows & Pressure Drops that are critical to understanding fluid flow through pipes, pumps, fittings, and components.
Pipe Flow Expert Software lets you design energy efficient pipe systems. It is easy-to-use and it performs detailed and complex flow rate and pressure loss calculations that are critical for understanding fluid flow through pipes, pumps, fittings, and proprietary components.
Problem is, that (in my opinion) fittings doesnt work. The flow flows from furnising item to closest fitting, than becomes 0l/s and pipe cant desing. System inspector is also not showing. Revit says to check the flows from furnishing items, but they are correct.
I also thought I should point out to you that, although not related to your flow mismatch problems, your plumbing fixtures have the connectors set to Preset and have fixed flow values. That is unusual for plumbing systems and it is more usual to set the connectors to Fixture Unit and assign fixture unit values. In plumbing systems there is always diversity of use, you will never find every fixture discharging simultaneously at full flow, hence the use of fixture units or loading units which are calculated using probability theory.
It's a good discourse to have with your professor - fixture unit summations for various types of equipment was based on research performed several decades ago looking at fixture flow rates and building use profiles. In the time since, we've dramatically reduced flow rates through fixtures like lavatories and water closets by various regional energy code mandates. I think IAPMO was taking measures to provide calculation methods intended to unify fixture unit calculations (high flow results) with present day fixture flow rates (low flow results).
A common occurrence would be in something like a small retail shop. By the book, the single unisex restroom and service sink might compute to 15 GPM by the fixture flow method, even though you have a 0.25 GPM aerator on the faucet, a 1.28 gpf toilet bowl, and a seldomly used service sink at 2-5 GPM, the total of which would never reach 15 GPM even with all units at full flow.
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