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Save time and money in your design process with virtual engineering and testing using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA) and specialised design simulation tools. BHRSolutions helps improve the production process, component, product and system design with a wide range of modelling services which use an array of simulation tools and physical testing facilities.

Benefits
Computer based simulations offer cost savings and a fast, efficient route for product and process development:

• Reduced design cycle
• Reduced testing programmes
• Improved product quality and reliability
• Increased process efficiency
• Opportunity to balance aesthetics with functionality
• Better component and material selection
• Assessment of the influence of the manufacturing process

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Experience
The analysis of physical structures and their interactions with contained or enveloping fluids involves consideration of many complex phenomena. Our fluid engineering knowledge and application experience allows us to tailor basic, validated software codes to reflect more accurately the complexity required by the simulation and also to verify its accuracy for your case using selected physical testing on our wide range of test facilities.

BHRSolutions' Engineering Analysis and Simulation Team comprises a group of experienced engineers from diverse but complementary backgrounds including engineering science, physics, mechanical, aeronautical and chemical engineering, with experience in process industry, utilities, bioengineering, product development and design.

The Team provides services for the systematic evaluation of product, process, unit/component design, behaviour and performance. The tools employed include CFD, FEA and BHRSolutions' own software. Their key skills aid in understanding the dynamics of the system being modelled, abstracting and simplifying the associated problems, and setting up and solving the equations that represent them.

Review our case studies of work on Fluid Systems or contact us for more information.

Software Services
See our capabilities in our specialist areas for details:

• Mixing
• Separation
• Process intensification
• Pumps, valves and hydraulics equipment
• Elastomeric components, e.g. seals, diaphrams and tubing (see Sealing section)
• Pipelines
• Water and waste water treatment processes

or talk to us about applying our knowledge to your equipment

Applications

Virtual modelling is used to:

• Predict complex thermodynamic, reaction, turbulence and flow phenomena
• Change geometry and fluid properties and view results instantly
• Vary material properties, and identify ideal materials of construction
• Virtually engineer whole systems
• Simulate and analyse non-linear phenomena and materials
• Assess the effect of operating environment on new and aged materials
• Assess the effects of design, process or material changes
• Assess the properties of a whole system: pressure drop and flowrates, pressure surge analysis, component sizing, etc.

Virtual Testing

• Review inherently dangerous processes safely
• Focus physical testing on optimised processes/equipment
• Test maxima/minima conditions without damage to test machinery
• Produce response surface models to predict system behaviour
• Assess the influence of control and supervisory systems on performance
• Trouble shoot components and systems by analysing field and data and reproducing the response within a simulation

Techniques
Our staff can draw on a wide variety of techniques to solve your problem:

• Finite Element Analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Network analysis
• Mathematical data analysis
• Image analysis
• Fuzzy logic
• Wavelet analysis
• Neural networks
• Nonlinear optimisation
• Dynamic system interaction