"Tesma has used FLUENT to help predict performance on every water pump project. We also use CFD to optimize impeller and volute shape, including, where necessary, to balance flow to both banks of V engines, thus reducing testing validation time. Typically, flow modeling analysis predicts to within less than 10% of the actual test result."

"We used FLUENT to model a Goulds pump running at its best efficiency point and at several off-design points. Animations created from sliding mesh models were particularly effective in illustrating separations and secondary flows that we knew were present but had no other practical way of visualizing. The animations and still graphics from FLUENT models became an integral part of an educational package designed to impress on engineers the importance of selecting a pump appropriately sized for a given operating point."

"FLUENT's unstructured technology makes it especially suitable for any non-axi-symmetric geometries, like the spherical pump casing. The easy-to-use post-processing quickly highlighted the difference between the old and new designs, delivering reliable, useful results in an industrial setting."

"At Chesterton, FLUENT CFD analysis is helping to guide the development and application of both new and existing mechanical seal products. In addition, valuable insight is being gained into the flow environment of mechanical seals, including critical effects of heat transfer and particulate interaction with the liquid/gas phases.

Virtual prototyping and visualization are reducing the number of costly laboratory tests, and in some cases providing key information heretofore unavailable from physical experiments. When compared with selected cases and operational scenarios, the FLUENT simulations are typically within 10% of measured laboratory data."

"Fluent's software and services really benefited everyone concerned, with improved plant reliability for Hoechst and a new competitive edge for our pump supplier. We wouldn't hesitate to utilize CFD again on a similar problem."