Valves & Nozzles

CFdesign allows you to reliably simulate and optimize the design, placement, and performance of critical components and systems like hydraulics, pneumatics, valves, pumps, compressors, turbomachinery all while on the “digital drawing board”.

CFdesign Solves Tough Problems

• Prediction of valve flow performance and flow coefficient (Cv) without the need for testing.
• Visualization and prevention of cavitation.
• Transient flow response of moving poppet and check valves.
• Influence of valve components on turbulence, flow separation and recirculation.
• For over 14 years, CFdesign has been helping valve designers make better valves that handle oil well heads, industrial applications, aerospace hydraulic applications, and even residential home faucets.
• Automatic creation of the flow volume saves designers time. Just bring in the CAD model and CFdesign will automatically model the flow part
• Moving valves like spring-loaded relief valves, moving butterfly or ball valves, and other arbitrary moving valve parts can be modeled quickly in CFdesign. You can either move the solid yourself or let the fluid "push" it for you. The built in wall calculator can even tell you the resulting forces at each instant on your valve solids
• Valve wear, cavitation, water-hammer, and compressi ble effects are easy to find for the non-dedicated designer when in CFdesign
• In the time it took to perform one traditional CFD analysis, CFdesign users have performed many "what-if" analysis and have the ability to cross-examine the results in one single interface to optimize their entire design

	Parker Hannifin is the world's leading manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. Using Upfront CFD engineers were able to solve an 18 month long design headache in 4 weeks. Read Full Brief
	Getting high flow rates through a compact, lightweight, pneumatic valve system looked like a horrendous task to design engineer, Tim Gaddy, until he put CFdesign to the challenge. Read Full Brief
	Imperial Oil, an important customer to the Velan Valve Corporation, needed a forged globe valve with a high flow coefficient and they needed it fast. Read Full Brief