Dynamic Solutions for a Fluid World™

Pipe Flow Modeling Software For Engineers

AFT’s software tools are used to analyze piping and ducting systems in over 80 countries, to help engineers design safer, more efficient systems and solve operational problems.

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AFT Software

AFT has helped engineers design and troubleshoot an array of systems used within the power, aerospace, water/wastewater, chemical, and of course oil & gas industries, just to name a few. Engineers in any industry can use our software for systems ranging from simple models, to highly intense waterhammer/surge or pulsation mitigation.

Size pipes, rotating / reciprocating equipment and valves.

Size and verify your pipe flow design quickly. Analyze different operating conditions.

Save energy and improve equipment reliability

Engineers can quickly evaluate options in fluid systems to reduce energy costs and improve reliabity of pumps, fans, compressors and components.

Solve operational problems

We help facility and pipeline engineers identify the root cause of operational problems in fluid systems.

Mitigate waterhammer

We help engineers improve safety by predicting waterhammer/surge transient pressures, evaluating potential operational changes to mitigate waterhammer, and enabling engineers to size and locate surge suppression devices.

Mitigate Pulsation Issues

We help engineers predict acoustic natural frequencies and determine undesirable positive displacement pump speeds which excite those frequencies.

AFT Pipe Flow Software Products

AFT Fathom

AFT Impulse

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Chempak

AFT Fathom 13

Steady State Pipe Flow Modeling Software

AFT Fathom is a fluid dynamic simulation software for engineers, used to calculate pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

  • Accurately simulate individual system components and interaction
  • Tightly integrates equipment characteristics, analysis and output with your system’s schematic representation
  • Provides a wide array of features without sacrificing your need for a short learning curve
  • Frees you to focus on your system, not the mechanics of software manipulation
  • Significantly improves the quality of systems engineering you can achieve, leading to less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

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Steady State Pipe Flow Modeling Software

AFT Fathom is a fluid dynamic simulation software for engineers, used to calculate pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

  • Accurately simulate individual system components and interaction
  • Tightly integrates equipment characteristics, analysis and output with your system’s schematic representation
  • Provides a wide array of features without sacrificing your need for a short learning curve
  • Frees you to focus on your system, not the mechanics of software manipulation
  • Significantly improves the quality of systems engineering you can achieve, leading to less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

AFT Impulse 13

Steady State Pipe Flow Modeling Software

AFT Fathom is a fluid dynamic simulation software for engineers, used to calculate pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

  • Accurately simulate individual system components and interaction
  • Tightly integrates equipment characteristics, analysis and output with your system’s schematic representation
  • Provides a wide array of features without sacrificing your need for a short learning curve
  • Frees you to focus on your system, not the mechanics of software manipulation
  • Significantly improves the quality of systems engineering you can achieve, leading to less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

AFT xStream 3

Steady State Pipe Flow Modeling Software

AFT Fathom is a fluid dynamic simulation software for engineers, used to calculate pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

  • Accurately simulate individual system components and interaction
  • Tightly integrates equipment characteristics, analysis and output with your system’s schematic representation
  • Provides a wide array of features without sacrificing your need for a short learning curve
  • Frees you to focus on your system, not the mechanics of software manipulation
  • Significantly improves the quality of systems engineering you can achieve, leading to less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

AFT Chempak Database

Steady State Pipe Flow Modeling Software

AFT Fathom is a fluid dynamic simulation software for engineers, used to calculate pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

  • Accurately simulate individual system components and interaction
  • Tightly integrates equipment characteristics, analysis and output with your system’s schematic representation
  • Provides a wide array of features without sacrificing your need for a short learning curve
  • Frees you to focus on your system, not the mechanics of software manipulation
  • Significantly improves the quality of systems engineering you can achieve, leading to less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

Dynamic Solutions for a Fluid World™

Find AFT in 80+ Countries

Since 1994, AFT and our 42 Channel Partners have helped engineers in over 80 countries design and troubleshoot flow within their piping systems. For steady-state or transient, compressible or incompressible, AFT provides the pipe flow modeling software tools engineers trust.

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Modeling and Simulation

Experiment with Operating Conditions and Scenarios

Easily change system input data, including valve positions, pump operation, control set points, pressures, temperatures, and more

Model a wide range of system components for both design and operational cases

Vary your system line-up: open/close pipes and valves, turn pumps on or off, set control valves to fail position

Specify design alerts that automatically highlight output values that are out of range for flow, pressure, velocity, pump efficiency, and more

Find pump data from online manufacturer catalogs

Compile libraries of your frequently used piping components and select them from a drop-down list

Address the viscosity and frictional changes associated with pumping non-settling slurries and a variety of other non-Newtonian fluids

Evaluate codes and industry standards applied in the model

Calculate the cost of system pipes and components as well as energy cost

Import piping layouts from:

CAESAR II® Neutral files supported by AutoPIPE®, ROHR2, TRIFLEX®, etc.
PCF Files supported by AutoCAD Plant 3D®, SmartPlant®, CADWorx®, and other GIS shapefiles supported by ArcGis, etc.
Import and export files in EPANET format

Clearly import Excel data into multiple scenarios and export with the Excel Export Manager

Export data to evaluate Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) according to Energy Institute Standards

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