What are Waterhammer Transient Forces & How to Simulate and Analyze Your System

Sudden surge pressures that are introduced into a piping system can cause great damage for piping and process equipment. Even worse, safety can be jeopardized and repairs costly. In this webinar, you will learn how you can easily perform a waterhammer analysis of your piping system yourself.

This webinar will focus on:
1. What is waterhammer and how can you simulate it?
2. How to control a valve-closure process to mitigate significant pressure surges
3. Demonstrate the calculation of transient forces that can be exported for pipe stress analysis

This 1-hour free webinar is led by Ben Keiser, Technical Sales Consultant, and Trey Walters, P.E., President and ASME Fellow.

The software tool used for this demonstration will be Applied Flow Technology’s AFT Impulse. AFT Impulse is an internationally recognized software to successfully analyze and mitigate waterhammer and surge issues. It is used by industry-leading Engineering, Procurement & Construction firms and has been easily adopted by system owners as the preferred waterhammer analysis tool.

What is AFT Impulse?
AFT Impulse is a powerful dynamic simulation and analysis software used to calculate pressure surge transients in liquid piping systems caused by waterhammer.
- Easily model a wide range of system components and surge devices
- Understand the transient response of your system, knowing how valves, pumps and other components will dynamically interact with each other.
- Evaluate the effect of pressure surges due to vapor cavity collapse by modeling vapor cavitation and liquid column separation.
- Validate the design of safety features to produce safer, more economical pipe systems.