NFPA and Fire Water Coverage analyses are essentially steady state analyses. While they tell you something about the performance of a fire water system in operation, they do not tell you anything about transient phenomena that can lead to significant damage and failures when the system is activated. Those transient phenomena can lead to severe pressure surges and unbalanced loads, in particular when dry fire water systems that are rapidly flooded with water. By performing a Flood & Drain analysis you can assess the expected pressure surges and unbalanced loads in advance so that you can avoid costly repairs to a damaged system.
With BOSfluids you can not only perform these different types of analysis within a single application, you also can perform them with a single piping model. In this way you save time and reduce the scope for modeling/conversion errors.
Check out the rest of the release highlights:
- Unified application data model
- Support for modeling reciprocating equipment
- Addition of a PIPENET file import interface
- Extension of special flow elements
- Improvement of the flood and drain model
- Improved cavitation models
- Improved and more efficient user interface
- Other improvements
For more information:
- Learn more about BOSfluids
- Schedule a demo to see BOSfluids in action