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Modeling and Testing Liquid Flow

Our extensive experience with liquid behavior allows ASC to accurately model liquid in many different states/environments, including:
Animation of liquid flow
This animation shows water flowing in a pipe under air.
Fully Liquid  Flows
  • Eliminate pressure drop
  • Ensure uniformity of flow
  • Ensure proper blending/mixing when liquids are combined
Liquid Droplets in a Gas Stream
  • Trajectories of droplets
  • Evaporation rate of droplets
Liquids Flowing Underneath a Gas
  • Free surface
  • Splashing behavior

Applications Include:
  • The design of piping systems that deliver equal or other desired flow splits to mixing tanks at multiple locations

  • The design of impellers to:
  • Limit shear forces that could kill yeast or other live cultures
  • Determine limits of operation before cavitation
  • The design of fish-friendly water intakes
  • The design of injection systems that:
  • Cool a gas stream uniformly
  • Avoid impingement on walls
  • Deliver droplets in a uniform flow across a plane of interest
  • The design of oil flow to avoid air bubbles
 CFD model of the velocity of water as it flows through a power plant filtration system.
CFD model of total pressure of water moving through power plant filtration system

Mixing in an Impeller Tank
Simulation/ LDV Data
CFD model of vertical velocity in an impeller tank
Vertical Velocity		 Simulation/LDV Data
CFD of tangential velocity in an impeller tank
Tangential Velocity		 Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV) is used to validate CFD data

Photo of LDV in use
In this study, a Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV) was used to validate CFD results.
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