What They Didn¦t Teach You in Engineering School About 3D Pressure Drop Analysis

The most common engineering task for fluid flow is to minimize the pressure loss in a system as the fluid flows from point A to point B.

The most common engineering task for fluid flow is to minimize the pressure loss in a system as the fluid flows from point A to point B.


To start that job, engineers have to create the geometry of the mechanical system and then develop the mesh.

New software tools now make that job easier because they work within traditional CAD packages, thereby allowing designers to rapidly iterate natively within their CAD systems without shipping designs off to simulation specialists.

This white paper presents case studies that highlight various CFD challenges including i) air handling and noise reduction, ii) designing valves to minimize fuel consumption, iii) calculating the pressure drop through a filter and iv) reducing prototype iterations in a new fuel assembly.

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