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1. Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Document number FN8 1 10 SP2_RNO 5 Revision 1 Status Approved by W G J Theron March 2012 CONFIDENTIAL Proprietary Class 3 Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd CONFIDENTIAL Page 2 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com MY CHANGE HISTORY Configuration Control Peer i en Revision History Description of Changes pa 01 03 2012 W G J Theron Second draft for review Authorisation Action Designate Signature W G J Theron Simulation Design Engineer ae Original Signed Copy at CMC Change Forecast The document format and contents are approved and will not change FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 3 of 19 M Tech j industrial www mtechindustrial com MY Abstract This document contains the Service Pack Release Notes of Flownex Simulation Environment 8 1 in March 2012 The Service Pack is a minor release and mosily provides updates as requested by clients to further improve usability of Flownex SE The major enhancements will be described in the release notes and all minor updates are listed FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 4 of 19 A M Tech industrial www mtechindust2. 13 Context menu for compound errors e An option to treat phase change warnings as errors was added to the Flow Solver this will also issue an error for negative pressures that are calculated It is true by default but can be turned off in the Flow Solver settings FN8 1 10SP2_RN075 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 4 2 5 4 2 6 MY CONFIDENTIAL Page 15 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com EFlow Solver Flow Solver Propertie General Identifier Flow Solver Description El Solution Configuration Solution Settings Solver Settings El Errors and Warnings Treat phase change warnings as errors Warnings Results Figure 4 14 Phase change warning settings in Flow Solver Improved error reporting for slurry added list of slurry pipes that are outside the valid domain of the solution for both positive and negative gradient options Improved error reporting for compressible cases added a list of nodes in compressible flow where pressures became lt 0 An error is issued after the solution is completed to see if the can solution somehow recover Drawing System Links and fibres now use the same mechanism to add and remove bend points Bend points are automatically removed when the points are dragged to straighten the link or fibre Transparency is not applied to bitmaps anymore when used to fill a backgroun
3. 2 9 Charts and Lookup Tables e Old conversion factors for Ansi valve charts were removed to avoid confusion now that the charts have unit enabling e Added earlier checks to ensure correct materials and fluids are used when setting up slurry and incondensable mixtures Errors will now we issued upon closure of dialog previously they were issued when solving e Added units to Ansi Valve fraction opening Flow Coefficient Data Cv d Related Data Scaled Diameters Data Points Point Open Fraction Flow Coefficient B99961744 271 007899919237 0 3 0 03999829973 0 4 0 07499681200 0 5 0 12999447414 0 6 0 18999192375 0 8 0 37998384750 0 9 0 529977471524 1 0 66697164838 Fee ovauewn a Figure 4 16 Ansi valve open fraction in chart setup FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 17 of 19 A M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com 4 2 10 Graphs e Graphs can now plot lists of doubles or integers by directly dragging and dropping the list onto them 4 2 11 Snaps e Increased speed of snap loading for large networks 4 2 12 Help e F1 help can now be launched from the charts and lookup tables view too 4 2 13 Flow Solver e Improved NPSH calculations to work for two phase and constant density fluids e Improved Basic Valve implementation usi
4. Runti_ Interpolation out of range Fan or Pump Flow Solver Runti_ Interpolation out of range F Show all wamings Number of wamings shown 100 Figure 4 3 Warning configuration pane At the bottom of the Waning Configuration dialog box shown in Figure 4 3 is an input property box where the user can specify the number of warnings shown in the error pane The value entered in the input box will limit the total number of warnings shown in the error pane to the maximum value entered The default value in Flownex SE is 100 Also found at the bottom the Warning Configuration dialog box is a Show all warnings tick box When the tick box is enabled then no warnings will be ignored and all the warnings will be shown in the Error pane Therefore this option allows the user to view the all the warnings even if it is listed as a specific or globally ignored warning Figure 4 4 illustrates the error log of a simulation where Show all warning is enabled on the left hand side and shown on the right hand side is a simulation where this option is disabled Error Log Error Log Seer i y P fCear JIE Z s Expand Collapse Configure warnings f Clear Qo Er d Z Expand Collapse Configure warnings Description Description Enhtalpy of 1509 9794 kJ kg K out of range too low when interpolating table for Temperature in material H20 Water LA Enhtalpy of 1509 9794 kJ kg K out of range too low when interpolating table fo
5. eee industrial www mtechindustrial com 1 Scope This document contains the Service Pack Release Notes of Flownex Simulation Environment 8 1 in March 2012 The Service Pack is a minor release and mosily provides updates as requested by clients to further improve usability of Flownex SE The major enhancements will be described in the release notes and all minor updates are listed 2 References 2 1 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS AND DATA The following documents and data are applicable 4 Control Library Manual FN8 1Man_ControlLibraryManual pdf 5 Electrical Library Manual FN8 1Man_ElectricalLibraryManual pdf 6 Flownex Demo Manual FN8 1Man_DemoManual pdf 2 2 ADDITIONAL REFERENCE DOCUMENTS AND DATA There is no additional reference documents 2 3 APPLICABLE SOFTWARE The following software files are applicable SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION VERSION NUMBER FILE NAME 7 Flownex Simulation Environment 8 1 10 SP2 FSE 8 1 10SP2 exe FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 6 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com Vy 3 Introduction The Flownex SE Service pack 2 is a collection of updates fixes and or enhancements to Flownex SE 8 1 The Service pack is focused on updates fixes and or enhancements to the user interface manuals and features within Flownex SE as requested by clients 4 Service Pack upda
6. an be ignored by right clicking on the warning and selecting Ignore this warning for all components as seen in Figure 4 2 Error Log f Clear 30 Errors Source Description State E Pipe 0 Roughness Diameter lt 1E 06 or gt 0 01 This is outside of the validitv ranae for the correlation Solve Steady State Go to element E Error Log gt Flow Solver Convergence E Console Resi Copy message s Ignore this warning Ignore this warning for all components Figure 4 2 Configure warnings so that the warning message can be ignored By left clicking on the Configure warnings button on the error log pane the user can view a log of the warning that are currently ignored The log has a similar look to Figure 4 3 Listed under Globally ignored warnings will be the warnings that are ignored for all the components and listed under Specific ignored warning are the warnings that are ignored for specific components When the user does not want a warning to be ignored anymore then this can be done by right clicking the on warning in the Warnings Configuration pane and selecting Delete FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL P 7 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com Globally ignored wamings Specific ignored wamings Error ID Message Element ID Error ID Message Flow Solver
7. ce eects cceee ees cdo atedseee eacee tested eee entcdueeaiodse ee pecandgec aces 16 122 ONO ea ee ee ee nee ee eae ee 16 4 2 9 Charts and Lookup Tables ccc cccccccccseceeeeeeceeeeseeeeseeeeseeeseeeesaeeeseueeseeesaeeesaeeees 16 a ATO a 2 e ee ee E ee 17 7 lid 2 EE E E E EE ee ce nen ee 17 A A og gt nO E E cee eee ee 17 GE ZV FOW ONY OM asses arte tg cccicne A octste me sensi ge sestasseiooe E OEE 17 43 a 4 coe ene en en eee me nee nee ee eee 17 CE WS CROP UNINC cece ster race seme E E E EE T EE E tesaneueceeanecsae o 17 Aae 97 9190 06 cee ee eee ne ee ee ee E noe een eee ee eee ee 17 gt ROSUL VO ar ce psec ss sain ace cts ecco E E E T 17 434 Drawing Sy SVC Whee cee arsacaee sninn EnA nice tens aseeceumnose N vans ouededsnece ees 17 CIN ares Saeco rs cs ers E ce cine esac cane seen eet poe oe asec nee eaiee ceoaweueeeeneceaeese 17 M30 Vora ean E E EE E 17 434 Chars and Lookup T ADIOS iccscccanexscxc taneciesdccnsascimnsuncsayarecusancnuecnapasyasauasneceaneeiamedasnuees 18 ARO FION SON CM arreen A E E E sate EEA ee 18 BO RESU a E E E E E E 18 43 10 Enor and VV AMINO S earrings nnana aaea Eaa EEAS 18 AST Manual UO ACS osnan ennn a aaa Eaa ad 18 4 3 12 Demo TCT WORK Sica cee heaetceccdssecerncssaccdwscuncsheie a a eE a EEEE ERa iaa 19 FN8 1 10SP2_RN075 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 5 of 19 A M Tech
8. d Note Use png files when transparency is required Using search option viewless now excludes compound elements Reduced memory usage for very large networks Alarm box may now be selected on drawing page canvas by clicking on it similar to graphs If viewless components exist in the project due to an unforeseen error the user is now prompted with a dialog showing the names of the viewless components to enquire if the user wants to remove them from the project The dialog may be disabled in project settings Viewless Fault Dialog Show on Load Compounds The compound setup page now shows hidden properties too so that properties that are shown or hidden when options change can be easily selected Added rename compound context menu option to library view FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 16 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com Vy Test Compound Component Setup Compound Item Edit Delete Make global Figure 4 15 Compound context menu 4 2 7 External links e The EES link was updated to enable concurrent transient simulations 4 2 8 Importers e The PCF and Excel importers can now create instances of compound components when importing e The PCF importer can now create other end points than nodes for imported entities for instance a compound acting as a node 4
9. er T Junction 0 T View1 Drawing D Figure 4 7 Advanced loss input in Junction e Added force zero flow option for the following valves Control valve with contraction coefficient o ANSI control valve When a chart is used to define characteristics o Control valve with loss coefficient o All Miller valves O FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 12 of 19 M Tech industrial i i www mtechindustrial com Valve curve Click here to select Force zero flaw when fully dosed Figure 4 8 Force zero flow input for valves 4 2 2 Results e Added viscosity specific heat conductivity and Prandtl number to node results oa Total temperature mos ew Statcpresse s23 wl Static temperature w fh Total mass OO eg wee o h Madi number O 0 O Heattransfer RL mhiy ea gL Energy source 0 w Liquid phase volume fraction a ee Conductivity o se4s32 Wwymk f Viscosity O ooosue2 gh we Specficheat 182470 K Hydraulic Grade Line 127 8793 mial ergy Li 127952 OOO i E went anal Seat S27 1446 14 N Figure 4 9 Updated Node results e Results were added for pump fan pressure rise and pump fan pressure head that are also used in the locus plots FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Indu
10. ew1 Drawing D EJ Project Explorer Pipe 36 Pipe Pr Viewl Drawing D Figure 4 5 Formula used to define an input The supported operators variables and functions are listed in the Tables below FN8 1 10SP2_RN075 Table 4 1 Supported variables Operator Value pi 3 14159265 e 2 1828182 atm 101 325 Table 4 2 Supported operators Operator Meaning Priority assignment 1 and logical AND 1 or logical OR 1 xor logical XOR 1 lt less or equal 2 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 Y ae CONFIDENTIAL PS industrial www mtechindustrial com greater or equal 2 I not equal 2 equal 2 gt greater than 2 lt less than 2 addition 3 subtraction 3 multiplication 4 division 4 raise x to the power of y 5 FN8 1 10SP2_RN075 Table 4 3 Supported functions Name Argc Explanation sin 1 sine function COs 1 cosine function tan 1 tangens function asin 1 arcus sine function acos 1 arcus cosine function atan 1 arcus tangens function sinh 1 hyperbolic sine function cosh 1 hyperbolic cosine tanh 1 hyperbolic tangens function asinh 1 hyperbolic arcus sine function acosh 1 hyperbolic arcus tangens function Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 M Tech MY industrial CONFIDENTIAL Page 10 of 19 www mtechi
11. l Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 MY CONFIDENTIAL Page 18 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com 4 3 7 Charts and Lookup Tables The editor for charts and lookup tables was not always on top when it is opened from the drop down on the input pages and this caused problems when minimizing or losing focus from Flownex Added all the properties to the insulated pipe that were hidden to allow schedule and complex geometry specification The saving and loading of the scaling factors for the variable speed pump was re enabled since they were shown in the user interface and can be useful in simulations Flow Solver Vertical cylinder option for open containers fixed Use of non condensable mixtures in finned tube heat exchanger networks was improved Corrected local solids volume concentration calculation when mass fraction solids is zero in vertical pipes Fixed problem with XtP calculation in check valve element Improvements to solver stability in zero flow settling slurries Boundary conditions inputs for two phase problems were sometimes hidden when connected to nodes that are disabled Fixed problem with Ansi valve the valve diameter was not set when the option is set to retrieve all diameters from a connected pipe Improved variable speed pump calculations when a negative head exists at the pump Fixed volume fraction for outflow of enthalpy for two phase tanks Results Total absolute through flow rate was re
12. moved from node results Tooltips for the open container was updated 4 3 10 Errors and Warnings The warning that the pipe does not specify a diameter when connected to an HT element and the HT element detects the area and diameter from the pipe was wrongly issued at the downstream side of the HT element Added a flow rate threshold to avoid unnecessary junction warning some errors were reported twice with the second report showing External component has thrown an exception now they are reported only once 4 3 11 Manual updates Manuals and tutorials were updated to reflect then enhancements and bug fixes in Service Pack 2 The Electrical manual has been reworked for all the component s chapters Chapter 2 5 because the inputs and output property page have been separated Some of the inputs and outputs properties have changed and this was updated Components manual section 6 3 6 5 Added Finned Tube heat exchanger results file description section section 6 7 6 3 Added Shell and tube heat exchanger results file description section Section 11 3 3 Added Bend forces theory section FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 19 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com e Section 11 6 3 Added Elastic pipe theory section e Section 14 3 6 2 Updated Compressor results definitions e Sectio
13. n 15 3 4 Updated Basic Valve input section Theory manual e Section 7 3 4 2 Updated concentration definitions in Slurry chapter e Chapter 8 Added Exergy theory chapter Flownex SE User manual Section 2 8 Added section discussing the window layers Section 2 10 Added section about the equation parser operations and functions Section 3 3 2 9 Updated errors and warnings settings section of the flow solver settings Section 3 3 3 Updated section about the flow solver results Chapter 12 Rewrote Compound Component chapter section 17 4 Added section about Hidden transfers section 18 2 Updated section with new features where warnings can be configured 4 3 12 Demo networks Additional demo networks were added for e EES component e Hidden transfers and e Combustion with adiabatic flame model er 7 File Home Insert Layout Configuration Results View Windows Settings Help a K Ba X BEA G Clipboard Start Page x pe k ne D New Project E Open Project For this demo an air standard chilling unit is simulated that provides a cooling chamber outlet temperature of 50C Automation Automation Demo 19 Three shaft brayton cycle for compresed air Automation All components in 8_0_13 revA t zi EFN f In this demo a three shaft Brayton cycle is used to produce compressed air a All components in Release 2011 a 8_1_5revA ee in 2011 SP1 Link to EES Engineering Equa
14. ndustrial com Name Argc Explanation atanh log2 log10 log In exp sqrt sign rint abs min max sum avg 4 2 MINOR ENHANCEMENTS 4 2 1 Inputs 1 1 1 Var Var Var Var hyperbolic arcus tangens function logarithm to the base 2 logarithm to the base 10 logarithm to the base 10 logarithm to base e 2 71828 e raised to the power of x square root of a value sign function 1 if x lt 0 1 if x gt 0 round to nearest integer absolute value if then else min of all arguments max of all arguments sum of all arguments mean value of all arguments e All input fields that have modal editors will now always display the button and not only when they receive focus FN8 1 10SP2_RN075 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 11 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com Vy Roughness option Specify manually Primary loss type Darcy Weisbach Roughness 30 K value based on minimum area Different reverse amp forward K val K forward Project Explorer m Pipe 16 Pipe Pr View1 Drawing D Figure 4 6 Input with browse button shown e Added specify advances losses to junction element like it was before service pack 1 Description Fluids Fluid Data Reference Solver Guess Values Specify guess values Heat Transfer Heat input Project Explor
15. ng a simplified model of the Ansi control valve instead of a restrictor Specify opening was to restrictor with discharge coefficient for backward compatibility 4 3 BUG FIXES 4 3 1 Reporting e Anew page in the excel reporting is created for all compound types 4 3 2 Compounds e Cancellation of editing compounds does not lose the template 4 3 3 Result Layers e Generic result layers now work for compounds e Result layers update after steady state solving without having to toggle them 4 3 4 Drawing System e Context menu rotate 90 degrees left and right swapped around e When selecting large areas in networks with a selection rectangle the nodes were sometimes erroneously not included in the selection e The preview of images in the style editors combo box was removed as it caused delays and excessive memory usage when used with numerous large images e Editing of text boxes in front of rectangles now correctly takes z order into account e CV tag updates on canvas when toggling Check Valve on pipe 4 3 5 Graphs e Locus plot of multiple points can be connected with lines e Graph auto scaling in some instances only happened when the graphs had focus 4 3 6 Upgrading e The importing of the gate valve elements from version 8 0 13 was fixed e Backward compatibility for layout of snaps window was added for version 8 0 13 files FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industria
16. r Temperature in material H20 Water Temperature of 0 0000 C out of range too low when interpolating table for Density in material H20 Water Temperature of 0 0000 C out of range too low when interpolating table for Enthalpy in material H20 Water a Enhtalpy of 1509 9794 kJ kg K out of range too low when interpolating table for Temperature in material H20 Water Temperature of 0 0000 C out of range too low when interpolating table for Specific Heat in material H20 Water Roughness Diameter lt 1E 06 or gt 0 01 This is outside of the validity range for the correlation Enhtalpy of 1509 9794 kJ kg K out of range too low when interpolating table for Temperature in material H20 Water LA Roughness Diameter lt 1E 06 or gt 0 01 This is outside of the validity range for the correlation Roughness Diameter lt 1E 06 or gt 0 01 This is outside of the validity range for the correlation Temperature of 0 0000 C out of range too low when interpolating table for Density in material H20 Water Roughness Diameter lt 1E 06 or gt 0 01 This is outside of the validity range for the correlation Figure 4 4 Error pane with Show all warning enabled and disabled 4 1 2 Inputs The ability to enter equations into input fields in the property grid was added The input fields in the Flownex property grid can now take equations as inputs To use an equation the first character in the field must be an in the same fashion as E
17. rial com Table of contents PROS FAG oia E E E E E 3 teo ODS rr E E EES 5 Di ROTO N INC CS ororena EEEE 5 2 1 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS AND DATA cipcigeiercienccicsatiensesiiantiotesaceadecttacindeneasinduelvsintioveesadendns wales 5 2 2 ADDITIONAL REFERENCE DOCUMENTS AND DATA Qu cc eeccccecccceeececeeeeeeeeeeesaeeeeeaes 5 23 APREICABLE SOFTWARE secretes yersgace sessed crac satetencdananacesecereesdeustadesncedaee aE 5 3 PNET OUNCE acc cts cerca te cetaceans es oe aa sete case eee ee meena E 6 4 Service Pack updates fixes amp or enhancements c ccsccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 6 4 1 MAJOR NEW ENHANCEMENTS ccccccecccceeececeeeeeceeceeseeceseeececeeeeeseeeeeseeeesaeeeseeeessaeees 6 4 1 1 Warning and Error System ccccccceccccesceceeeeseeeeseeeseeeeseeeeseeeeseeeesueeseeeeseueeseeeesaeeeaes 6 ed DUS eea ee ee See E een ee eee ee ee er 7 4 2 MINOR ENHANCEMENTS cccccceccccceececaeeeceeececeeeeeeeceeseeceseeeeeseucesseeesseeeesseeesaneessaes 10 ZW ADU e E seesestee sac vues tacaroeoeetecuetscus ee A 10 ETS sche a a ss cite os sense sc aes A E oe tatee EA T 12 ALS RODOM eee eee te er ee ee ee ee ee eet ene eee EN 14 4 2 4 Error and Warning System ccccccceececeececeeeeeeeeseeeeseeeeseeeeseeesseeeseeeeseueeseesseeesaeeees 14 42 Drawing SY SUC IM ccc cecsscicse eetecese onneni sedate oe e ables a R cubes E OA aE A rE 15 AO C OM 8160 90 ee O E E E A E E eee 15 4 2 7 External links ae rs cca es cet
18. strial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL P 13 of 19 M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com Vy Identifier Fan or Pump 16 C Flow Element Results Generic Results Flow and Geometry variables Energy and Heat Transfer variables Non dimensional variables Fluid variables Convergence Upstream Results Downstream Results Forces Fan Or Pump Results Pump Fan Pressure rise 1153 11 kPa Pump Fan Head 117 75 m Pump Fan shaftpower 23 0931 kW Reference Density 1000 kg m Volume flow vs Pressure rise Volume flow vs NPSH 0 5 1 0 1 5 Figure 4 10 Pump results and locus plot e Tooltips were added for all new components including insulated pipe vented container two phase filter and jet pump Insulated Pipe 9 Total mass flow 3 45478 kg s Total volume flow 0 00343938 m s Mean pressure 650 634 kPa Total pressure drop 1101 27 kPa Total temperature 10 9319 C Density 998 66 kg m Upstream Velocity 7 00666 m s Downstream Velocity 7 00666 m s Figure 4 11 New component tooltips e The volumetric flow rate based on ambient pressure and temperature and atmospheric pressure was added as results to all the element component result windows FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 14 of 19 M Tech ind
19. tes fixes amp or enhancements 4 1 MAJOR NEW ENHANCEMENTS 4 1 1 Warning and Error System A mechanism was added to allow users to ignore warnings for a component or all components of a certain type The user can also now specify the maximum number of warnings to show Error Log and Configuration settings The network configuration errors and warnings can be viewed in the errors log window as shown in Figure 4 1 Expand Collapse Configure warnings cription Fluid not assigned right click on any flownex component or the drawing canvas and select Assign fluids from the context menu to select fluids for flow circuits ve Steady State Fluid not assigned right click on any flownex component or the drawing canvas and select Assign fluids from the context menu to select fluids for flow circuits ve Steady State Fluid not assigned right click on any flownex component or the drawing canvas and select Assign fluids from the context menu to select fluids for flow circuii ve Steady State ve Steady State ve Steady State Figure 4 1 Errors log window pane When the user want to ignore a certain warning for a specific warning this warning can be ignored by right clicking on the warning and selecting Ignore this warning as seen in Figure 4 2 This will cause this specific warning not to appear again for this component When the user want to ignore a certain warning for all the components in the project then this warning c
20. tion Solver Valves p An example project that shows how to connect variables from Flownex to variables in EES and run simulations concurrently Flownex Partners with PADT Inc Hidden Data Transfer Capability Fri 13 Jan 2012 08 21 27 0000 I Flownex Simulation Environment adds PADT Inc to its list of Sor distinguished international channel partners PADT s offerings A simple example that shows how hidden data transfers are configured in excel and then used to transfer data during a came out ofa long time need that the company s sales and ans m simulation technical staff was seeing when engaging with customers According to Eric Miller Principal and Co Owner of PADT We Combustion with Adiabatic Flame model kept running into customers who were happy with the detailed CFD tools we were providing them with but were struggling with eect CO understanding the behavior of the system that New Flownex Website Tue 03 Jan 2012 11 15 52 0000 The new Flownex website has been revamped to now r Combustion of methane and oxygen is demonstrared using the Adiabatic Flame model The radiation and convection heat transfer from the flame model to the combustion chamber is modelled with separate components Figure 4 17 New demos networks in start page FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3
21. ustrial www mtechindustrial com Fan or Pump 16 Fan or Pump Propertie O General Identifier Fan or Pump 16 Flow Element Results Generic Results EI Flow and Geometry variables Total mass flow 20 Total volume flow 720965 6 e e A a e a e a aa a aO 0200268359601867 Maximum velocity 0 Mean pressure 676 555 Node pressure drop 1153 11 Pressure head 117 75 Pressure ratio up down 0 0798014 Pressure ratio down up 12 5311 Total temperature 10 0039 Quality D Total volume 0 Total mass 0 Static pressure 100 Energy and Heat Transfer variables Non dimensional variables Fluid variables H Convergence Figure 4 12 Volume flow based on ambient conditions 4 2 3 Reporting e Excel generic reports with compounds can now be set up 4 2 4 Error and Warning System e Errors or warnings issued from components within compounds will take you directly to the compound when double clicked A context menu on the warning or error can be used to go to the inner component Error reporting for duplicate components and layers was improved Added warning if junction losses are not calculated g Clear 3 3 Errors h 0 Warnings Expand Collapse Configure warnings Source EAV 10 X Downstream link is not connected to a mi Fluid not assigned right click on any fle Upstream link is not connected toa nodas Go to element Copy message s Flow Solver Convergence Console KEA Result Layers Figure 4
22. xcel The equation will be evaluated when the field loses focus or enter is pressed The equation will be shown again when the field receives focus For example an equation can be typed in as following sin 30 pi 2 FN8 1 10SP2_RNO75 Flownex SE Version 8 1 SP2 Release Notes Copyright 2012 by M Tech Industrial Pty Ltd Proprietary Class 3 CONFIDENTIAL Page 8 of 19 A M Tech industrial www mtechindustrial com ipe 36 Pipe Prc Identifier Description Upstream node Solving Node 42 Upstream node Node 42 Downstream node Fluid Data Reference Geometry option Wall thickness Node 44 Downstream node Node 44 Water Const Dens Liquids Pure Fluid Data Reference Water Const Dens Liquids Pure Specify geometry Geometry option Specify geometry pi 0 0252 miy Wall thickness 0 00 196349540849362 10 m w Length 10 E Options Diameter Cross sectional option Diameter No Variable area No E Inlet 0 25 Diameter 0 25 Specify manually Roughness option Specify manually Primary loss type Roughness K value based on minimum area Primary loss type _ 30 m Roughness K value based on minimum area K forward EJ Project Explorer No Different reverse amp forward K val No Different reverse amp forward K val 0 K forward Pipe 36 Pipe Pr Vi
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