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Visualize Your Goals

Stephanie Villars

Wednesday, 09 January 2019

Tips and Tricks

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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Meet the Import Piping Layout Wizard

Stephanie Villars

Tuesday, 04 December 2018

Tips and Tricks

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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Powerful Tools for Power Generation

Scott Lang

Monday, 03 December 2018

AFT News Tips and Tricks Uncategorized

Establishing and maintaining an electrical grid is a monumental task spanning many professions and disciplines. Fluid dynamics plays an important role in nearly any method of power generation. Between ensuring safety, reliable production of power, and minimizing operational costs, there are countless ways that modeling fluid flow can offer improvements.

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Don’t Waste your Time... “Take a Batch”

Rafael Hoyer

Monday, 12 November 2018

Tips and Tricks

Figure 1: AFT Fathom – Batch Run "Start Batch Run…" feature

Figure 2: AFT Fathom – Batch Run "Batch Run" window

Figure 3: AFT Fathom – Batch Run "Add Scenarios" window

Here at Applied Flow Technology we like to make things easy for our end users. That is why AFT Products have been developed not only to give you accurate and reliable results but to save you time as well. Let's talk about the "Start Batch Run..." feature. What does this feature do? Let's imagine you have a model with many scenarios and you need to ...

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

Stephanie Villars

Monday, 15 October 2018

Tips and Tricks Uncategorized

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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Now it’s Super Easy! Changing Input Data in AFT Models using Excel Change Data

Rafael Hoyer

Monday, 08 October 2018

Tips and Tricks

We've previously discussed how to make input data changes in AFT Models using the Excel Change Data feature on other blogs , but since we are continuously asked about expedited ways to input and change data, we've updated our feature to make things even easier. AFT Software has an abundance of features that make the model input process tremendously...

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Not a Leak! Modeling Multi-stage Pumps with Discharge Flow Between Stages

Scott Lang

Monday, 10 September 2018

Tips and Tricks

AFT Fathom has long included the ability to model multi-stage pumps by representing them with an overall effective pump curve. New in AFT Fathom 10 is the ability to model "Interstage Bleed" or "Takeoff Flow" in these multi-stage pumps.

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