Stephanie Villars

Stephanie Villars is an Applications Engineer with Applied Flow Technology (AFT) where she provides technical support to individual clients using AFT products. Stephanie is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines with her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Size Up Your Options Using the ANS module

Stephanie Villars

Friday, 11 October 2019

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When working on a new piping system, there are many factors that must be taken into account: meeting customer demands, following industry standards, and maintaining effective system operation to name just a few. As a busy engineer, it is important to address all of these concerns in the short time frame available to you. AFT's new Automated Network...

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Applying the Improved ATKF Method for Laminar and Non-Newtonian Flow

Stephanie Villars

Monday, 17 June 2019

Tips and Tricks

If you have worked with Non-Newtonian fluids or low velocity systems in AFT Fathom or AFT Impulse before, then it is likely that you have worked with the Adjusted Turbulent K Factor (ATKF) method before. The ATKF method can be used to adjust K factor data developed for turbulent flow conditions to better predict loss in the laminar f...

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Slurries non-Newtonian fluid laminar flow ATKF AFT Impulse AFT Fathom

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Raise the bar using Vacuum Breaker Valves

Stephanie Villars

Monday, 11 March 2019

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Vacuum breaker and air valves are useful tools in the industry for protecting pipelines against vacuum or near vacuum conditions. High points in the pipe can be susceptible to these low-pressure conditions during surge events, as pressure waves moving through the system cause a sudden pressure upsurge or downsurge. AFT Impulse can help engineers to...

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cavitation vacuum conditions air valves vacuum breaker Vacuum Breaker Valve AFT Impulse

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Visualize Your Goals

Stephanie Villars

Wednesday, 09 January 2019

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AFT Impulse 7 has several different tools to analyze waterhammer, including several new features such as Visual Report Animation. This tool offers a new method to understand how different sections in a network interact with each other allowing users to quickly locate points of interest for further analysis, and visually demonstrate the system ...

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Visual Report Animation AFT Impulse 7 Visual Report AFT Impulse

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Meet the Import Piping Layout Wizard

Stephanie Villars

Tuesday, 04 December 2018

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When completing the analysis on a model, there is nothing more frustrating than having to do the same thing over and over again. Thankfully, using AFT's Piping Layout Wizard you will no longer need to rebuild your CAD, CAESAR II , and EPANET files to analyze the hydraulics using AFT Fathom 10 , AFT Arrow 7 , and AFT Impulse 7 . In addition to ...

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Import CAESAR II Piping Layout Wizard EPANET PCF AFT Impulse AFT Arrow AFT Fathom 10

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"Water" you waiting for? Checkout these water system features!

Stephanie Villars

Monday, 15 October 2018

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Seeing as this month is water month, we thought this would be a perfect time to highlight some of the great ways that AFT Fathom 10 can help with hydraulic analysis for water distribution, wastewater, and fire water systems. From building the model to exporting and presenting results, we offer several helpful features. We have heard our users...

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AFT Impulse AFT Fathom 10 EPANET water distribution system

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Get More Flexible With Your Fluids

Stephanie Villars

Monday, 09 July 2018

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Here at AFT we are always looking for more ways to bring more convenience and accuracy to our model files. One of the ways we are doing this is with NIST REFPROP, the new fluids database that we have incorporated into AFT Fathom 10 and is coming soon in AFT Arrow 7 and AFT Impulse 7. Unlike Chempak, REFPROP is included at no additional cost to users. In this blog I will highlight a few reasons why you may want to take advantage of this database.

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AFT Fathom AFT Impulse AFT Arrow fluids database NIST REFPROP New Features

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