Help Finding Pipe Flow Software
Help Finding Pipe Flow Software
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Can anyone recommend easy to use and intuitive pipe flow software. I am looking for something capable of calculating flow in small networks(less than 50 pipes) that includes some basic graphics (i.e. click on nodes, draw in pipes, assign data to pipes, solve for flow,velocity, pressure). I have tried a demo version of kypipe which seems quite useful but am looking for other options. I don't need the ability to interface with CAD or GIS. Thanks for any suggestions!





RE: Help Finding Pipe Flow Software
If you play with pumps much Pipeflo can be very useful because many pump manufacturers provide data files for Pipeflo to use directly in the system, just insert the pump, watch the results.
Pump data catalogues can also be used directly in a separate module included (I think) in Pipeflo, allowing you to play around with pump configurations, (impeller trim, stages, drivers, etc.)
PUMPDESIGNER
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Haestad methods has a really good program (Watercad/Cybernet); but, the larger pipe quantities also cost considerably. What good design program doesn't anymore. They have a small 25 pipe version that runs about $100 with a design manual. I used this for a while until we needed a larger network. You can simplify many small networks to give you the information you need with it.
EPA also has a program called EPANET that will calculate systems. I've not used it since I have haestads; but, several do.
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good luck
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fvincent
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Hydrae
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If you are interested I can send as an e-mail attachment.
Jim Porter. jporter26@mac.com
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I work for a consulting firm where we hold licences for numerous water modelling packages but am keen to echo the sentiments of many others on this post - that EPANET is a great tool for simple applications, has good on-line help and technical reference manual, and a robust hydraulic engine. It may not have the 'wow' factor in data import and results presentation, but i find that import/export from and to an excel spreadsheet provides adequate data presentation.
EPANET V2.0 (which i believe someone has provided the link to on this post) is useful because it also provides scenario managment abilities, which allows you to run various trial pipe networks or various demand scenarios.
Regards
Sharyn
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