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Fern Engineering + Datacor Arrow | Gas Turbine Fuel Flow Analysis | Power Generation

Written by Admin | Feb 25, 2026 2:50:24 PM

The fuel supply manifold of a Rolls Royce Avon gas turbine involves dozens of fittings, bends, orifices, and tolerance variations across every nozzle branch. Prior to Datacor Arrow, analyses like this were done by hand. Large-scale models were, as Fern's president put it, simply impossible.

So they benchmarked Arrow's sonic choking predictions against real test data first. The results matched to within 2%. Then they built the full model.

 

Download the case study to see the test-validated model output and learn how Arrow replaced days of hand calculation with rigorous, scalable compressible flow analysis.