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The unique skills of our specialist Seals team, and software staff, provide clients with an added value much greater than that of conventional FEA and CFD analysis services.

Their materials, fluid and software engineering knowledge, combined with years of application experience allows them to understanding the complex phenomena and dynamics of the system being modelled, abstract and simplify the problem and provide custom code or tailored versions of validated software codes which apply engineering insight to complex simulations.

All of our specialist software is validated by test work on our unique range of physical test equipment. By using our own and clients' test data time and money can be saved using virtual engineering and testing techniques.

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

• Reduced time to market
• Improved product quality and reliability
• Increased process efficiency
• Opportunity to balance aesthetics with functionality
• Better component and material selection
• Assessment of the effects of manufacturing processes
• Response surface models to predict system behaviour
• Assessment of the effect of control and supervisory systems
• Safe review of inherently dangerous processes
• Physical testing on optimised processes/equipment only
• Maxima/minima 'testing' without damage to test machinery
• Life cycle risk assessment

Please review our case studies or contact us to discuss your particular needs.

Our Experience
The analysis of physical structures and their interactions with contained or enveloping fluids involves consideration of many complex phenomena. Key requirements are the proper understanding of the dynamics of the system being modelled, and the ability to abstract and simplify the associated problems and a good understanding of how to set up and solve the equations that represent them.

Our specialist Seals team, backed up by specialist CFD and other software staff, combine fluid engineering knowledge, professional software engineering skills, and application experience to create custom code or tailor basic, validated software codes to reflect more accurately the complexity required by the simulation. All of our specialist software is validated by test work on our unique range of physical test equipment and by comparison with our clients' test data.

Sealing and Containment Software Services

Through collaborative programmes involving component manufacturers and users, we have developed a range of specialist software and applications of standard software.

Software available

• ELASTEQ - Elastomer life-cycle prediction FEA software
• EDView - Explosive Decompression FEA-based software from the MODES consortium
• CFD modelling, covering static and dynamic components
• Customised FEA models for your problem, eg.TimberTherm to calculate the heat treatment requirements for timber
• Surface analysis
• Tribological models
• Permeation models for polymers and elastomers based on ELASTEQ

ELASTEQ's animated display of fluid concentration in a seal

Services available

• Consultancy from our specialists using the software on a one-off or regular basis
• Join one of our collaborative research programmes to steer the future development of the software
• Customised versions of standard and novel programs

Capabilities

• Complex thermodynamic, reaction, turbulence and flow phenomena
• Virtual engineering of whole systems
• Change geometry and fluid properties and view results instantly
• Assess effects of design/process or material changes
• Vary material properties, and identify ideal materials of construction
• Assess operating environment effects on new and aged materials
• Simulate and analyse non-linear phenomena and materials
• Trouble-shoot components and systems by reproducing and varying responses using simulation