CFdesign Motion Module Chosen as Pump Industry Award Finalist

Vote Now To Help Make CFdesign the Winner of the “Technical Innovation of the Year Award”

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – August 24, 2009: Blue Ridge Numerics is excited to announce that the CFdesign Motion Module has been selected as a finalist in the “Technical Innovation of the Year” category of the 2009 Pump Industry Awards. Finalists were selected by a panel of judges, who based their choices on innovation, application details, use and relevance of the product, and product success. Voting is now open to the public on the Pump Industry Awards website (between August 24, 2009 and October 23, 2009) to help determine the final winner in each category.
 

View of internal flow patterns of Cornell’s centrifugal pump, modeled with CFdesign, highlighting the pressure of the liquid and the pattern of the flow.

The new version of the CFdesign Motion Module, which was released in April 2009, was chosen as a finalist for its ability to provide pump companies with a significant speedup of full transient system-level simulation and performance curve generation upfront in the design process. New rotational algorithms for transient rotating modeling included in the latest release of the Motion Module speed up simulation time by 20x on a standard computer and 100x with the addition of the HPC Module, which can result in a significant reduction in product development time for pump companies.
 
Using the new Motion Module, design engineers at Cornell Pump Company, for example, were able to perform a series of transient simulations to develop a complete performance curve, enabling evaluation of a centrifugal pump design in only two hours, down from 200 hours. The significant performance increases the Cornell team experienced using CFdesign will have major implications for development of new pumps.  Beyond cutting computer simulation time from weeks to hours, it is expected to reduce the number of pump castings that have to be made for physical testing. Eliminating just one of the physical tests could save the Cornell team as much as three months of development time. Click here for more information on Cornell Pump’s success using the CFdesign Motion Module.

VOTE NOW:
Voting is now open to the public through October 23, 2009 on the Pump Industry Awards website: www.pumpindustryawards.com. Visit the site to select your favorites from each category. Winners will be announced at the Pump Industry Awards Ceremony in November.

Click here to learn more about the CFdesign Motion Module.