Engineering Flow Analysis

Innovex uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software to analyze complex flow performance. Flow Simulation embeds seamlessly within our Solidworks CAD environment which allows us to quickly prepare your models, run simulations and generate detailed flow results. The benefits of applying flow simulation to your design include:

• reducing overall development time
• quickly alter design features and investigate the effect on flow
• minimize prototype costs
• minimize costs associated with testing (although some level of real-world testing is almost always required)
• easily identify flow properties such as adequate mixing, fluid trajectory, velocities, pressure distribution and losses

Investigating your designs and flow patterns through efficient simulation software is both cost and time-effective. We can provide accurate depictions of how a design will behave and give you the ability to alter critical design features in order to achieve your intended goal – all without having to incur expensive prototype and testing costs.

Example applications:

Detailed Flow Simulation capabilities:

CFD allows us to provide our clients with a complete analysis of flow behavior. As expected, due to the generally complex nature of fluid flow the results can be equally complex. Flow Simulation provides excellent tools to present the results and quickly generate various studies to investigate different flow conditions or design features:

• Trajectory	Visualize how various fluid streams flow through or around your design.
• Pressure	Visualize and accurately measure pressure anywhere in your flow stream.
• Particle studies	Determine how different particulates will behave when present in your flow stream. Details include collisions with your solid body design and gravity effects.
• Heat flow	Visualize and accurately measure heat flow anywhere in your flow stream or solid body.
• Mixing	Determine mixing ratios anywhere in the flow stream when more than one type of fluid is present.
• Clone studies	Once a model has been prepped for simulation, clones can be quickly created to allow multiple studies. Each study can be easily varied to look at various combinations of flow conditions or design features.