AFT Impulse: Waterhammer and Surge Analysis

Using AFT Impulse, Design and operate your system with greater safety and reliability.  AFT Impulse easily Calculates pressure transient events in piping systems caused by waterhammer.

• Avoid potentially catastrophic effects of waterhammer and other undesirable system transients
• Alleviate possible financial and environmental issues associated with inadequate system designs or operational procedures
• Avoid lost revenue resulting from incidents that cause down time
• Advanced transient solver based on Method of Characteristics
• Built-in steady-state solver to automatically initialize waterhammer transient
• Detailed pump inertial modeling for trips and start-ups including state-of-the-art, four quadrant methods
• Models transient cavitation and liquid column separation
• Scenario Manager to track all design variants and operational possibilities in a single model file
• Integrated graphing and reporting
• Animation features to dynamically graph transients
• Built-in intelligence to guide you in building better models
• Analyze waterhammer effects on systems containing non-Newtonian fluids with either settling or non-settling slurries

Add-on Modules

Further extend your modeling capabilities with these effective tools

• Goal Seek and Control (GSC)
  • Evaluate the effects of changing system parameters
  • Save time by avoiding manual iterative analyses
  • Simulate control system behavior
• Extended Time Simulation (XTS)
  • Understand how critical system parameters vary over time
  • Automatically change variables for a dynamic simulation of your system
• Settling Slurry (SSL)
  • Expertly handle slurry system challenges
  • Avoid system failures and excessive operational costs
  • Prevent plugged pipes and misapplied pumps
• Automated Sizing (ANS/APS)
  • Minimize the initial cost or operating cost of your system
  • Meet specific design parameters of your system
  • Understand what really drives your system