COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., USA,  April 9, 2019 --  AFT often donates full version licenses to university research students around the world for graduate and Ph.D. projects, as well as senior group projects. To request a license, students must work with their professor to submit a letter of request to AFT. After the project is concluded, students submit a report of their findings to AFT. 

The partnership is dually beneficial. Students receive an industry-leading, fluid flow simulation tool, and AFT gains insight into innovative engineering projects which help us continue to provide software that meets and exceeds the expectations of engineers; both now and as younger engineers enter the workforce.  

Applied Flow Technology (AFT) has donated software to dozens of universities around the world and offers extremely inexpensive software bundles to professors who teach hydraulic flow. Recently AFT donated AFT Arrow and the Goal Seek & Control (GSC) Module to a university researcher from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. 

Researcher Wan -Yi Hong will use AFT Arrow and the Goal Seek & Control Module to evaluate the effectiveness of existing natural gas pipeline networks in Taiwan. He will evaluate the effectiveness of pipeline network supply of natural gas by collecting existing known data such as pipeline diameter, pressure, temperature, time, flow, etc. and evaluate them under challenges and constraints.

According to Hong, AFT is known for its professional software for fluid simulation analysis of pipelines. In his research project, titled, "Building a Natural Gas Network Traffic Assessment and Prediction Model" Hong will simulate a network and will then verify the data using AFT Arrow.

At Kansas State University in the United States, students will be using AFT Fathom, along with the GSC Module, to redesign the the campus boiler feed pump. The current boiler feed water pumps are currently much larger than necessary. To remedy this, students Jacob Ockerhausen, Mark Blevins, Glen Coffman, Mathew Walburn, and Marcus Gammill are designing a new pump layout with new, much smaller, pumps. The end goal of this project is to greatly reduce the energy costs that Kansas State pays for its campus heating. To begin this project, the team toured the facilities building to better understand the current situation and to see the space and fixtures. They calculated the NPSH and the pump discharge head loss values by hand using fluid mechanics textbooks. 

They have values they believe are accurate, but wanted to calculate the values using the AFT Fathom to confirm their results and request a quote for the design boiler feed water pump skid.

Finally, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology located in Wroclaw, Poland used AFT Impulse on two student projects on waterhammer and pressure pulsation research. In the first project, titled Waterhammer phenomenon analysis in a process installation on the example of an oil pumping station, Karolina Pawluć investigates waterhammer as a result of the sudden closing of valves or sudden stop of the pump in a process oil system by means of numerical simulation. The scope of work includes the analysis of the state of knowledge in the field of numerical modeling of the waterhammer phenomenon in pipeline installations, preparation of geometric and numerical models of the selected section of the installation, definition of boundary conditions, performing numerical calculations and analysis of the results. 

Wroclaw's second project, titled Pressure pulsation analysis in a process installation on the example of an oil pumping station, Dominika Wyrwas investigates pressure pulsation generated by positive displacement pumps in an oil process installation by means of numerical simulations. The scope of work includes a state of knowledge analysis in the field of numerical modeling of pulsating flows in pipelines, preparation of geometric and numerical models of the selected section of the installation and definition of boundary conditions, performing numerical calculations and analyzing the results.  

Learn more about AFT's opportunities for education at www.aft.com/education.