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Automatic Sectioning Comes to Impulse 11: Smarter, Faster Model Setup with Smart Sectioning Modes

Blog, Impulse, xStream + 2 more

Cut the Iteration Cycle: Cross-App Thermal Linking Now in Fathom & Arrow

Blog, Fathom, Arrow + 4 more

Bubble Trouble? Not Anymore with Impulse’s New Pipe Filling and Draining Feature

Blog, Fathom, Arrow + 4 more

Datacor Unifies Portfolio Companies Under One Brand to Deliver Greater Customer Value

ERP, CRM, Sales + 31 more

Accurately Predict Transient Fluid Forces in Piping Systems

Engineer, Engineering, Impulse + 3 more

Viability of the Method of Characteristics for unsteady, non-isothermal, real gas analysis in piping networks

Engineer, Engineering, Arrow + 3 more

How Fast is a Finite Gas Transient Wave

Engineer, Engineering, xStream + 2 more

10 New Features in Datacor Pipe Flow Modeling Software in 2025

Engineer, Engineering, Fathom + 5 more

Know Your Transient Pipe Loads (Part 2)

Engineer, Engineering, Fathom + 6 more

Webinar: Modeling Fluid Flow in the Power Generation Industry

Webinar, Fathom, Arrow + 5 more

AFT is Proud to Now Be Datacor

Datacor News, Oil & Gas, Chemical + 32 more

Behold The New and Improved Design Alert Manager

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 8 more

Pause and Resume Lengthy Transient Simulations Using Checkpoint Files

Blog, process simulation, Engineer + 7 more

Awesome Annotation Tool Additions

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 7 more

Reciprocating Compressors and Modeling Approaches

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 7 more

Going Infinite In a Finite World

Blog, Engineer, Financial Management + 5 more

Compressor Maps for Centrifugal Compressors

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Arrow & xStream New Features Coming Soon

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 10 more

My Recent Visit With Newton and Galileo

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 4 more

How to use AFT Workspace Layers

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 7 more

Declutter Your Natural Gas Model

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 6 more

Quickly Renumber Your Pipes and Junctions

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 7 more

Predicting the Future is Hard

Food & Beverage, Blog, Operations + 7 more

2,500 Year Old Pump Technology is Still a Thing

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 6 more

Jobs, Artificial Intelligence, and the Coming Robot Apocalypse

Blog, AI, Oil & Gas + 8 more

Using Cost Libraries for Optimal Engineering

Reporting, Blog, Operations + 10 more

Restore Your Sanity, and Your Corrupted Model Files

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

AFT Software Makes a Splash on Lunar Rocket ARTEMIS I

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Waterhammer and World Languages – A Decade Ago and Today

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 7 more

AFT 2023 Price Increase

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Would Newton Approve of How You Use His Law?

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 5 more

Houston, the Energy Capital of the World…Friend or Foe?

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 11 more

Pumping System Design Pitfalls to Avoid

Blog, Operations, Chemical + 13 more

The Truth About Air Compressors

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 4 more

Safety In Nuclear Power Steam Piping Part II: Some Background on Engineer Evans Goodling

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 7 more

Steam Piping in Nuclear Power Plants Is Not As Safe As Commonly Believed

Reporting, Blog, Oil & Gas + 4 more

Don't throw a fit over your Fitting K Factors - Part 1: Fittings & Losses in AFT Fathom

Blog, process simulation, Engineer + 8 more

ASME PVP Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 12 more

Space Debris, Forever Chemicals and Zombie Movies - the Quest for Sustainability

Sustainability, Blog, Chemical + 9 more

Looking Behind High Gasoline/Petrol Prices – Trends in Oil Refining

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 8 more

Get in Control with Control Valves

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

What Does the Ukrainian Fluid Flow Term “Hydro Udar” Mean?

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 7 more

Find Help Faster with the Documentation Portal

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

For Geeks Only – Solving Transient Compressible Flow Equations

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 4 more

AT Group Colombia

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Is there steam on your (Microsoft) Windows? How ASME Steam Tables came to be.

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 8 more

Top 10 Reflections from AFT in 2021

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 9 more

2021 Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 5 more

Introducing the AFT Arrow XTS Module!

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 8 more

Orbital Reef: A Business Park in Space?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Modeling Solutions for the Unsung Hero

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 10 more

A System Approach with Flow Analysis

Reporting, Blog, process simulation + 18 more

Eagles: NFL Football Team, National Emblem or Wind Turbine Foe?

Blog, AI, Engineer + 6 more

Quick Guide to Custom Output

Reporting, Blog, process simulation + 7 more

The Fluid Mechanics of an African Safari

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Get the Most Out of AFT's Fluid Property Viewers

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Why Does Pipe Flow Hydraulics Need an Institute?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 12 more

Having model convergence problems? Start here!

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 5 more

Trey Walters Appointed to University of Colorado Boulder Advisory Board

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

I Got My Professional Engineer (P.E.) License – OK, Why?

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 7 more

The Benefits of Multi-Pump Arrangements

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 8 more

Check For a Bumpy Ride

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 7 more

Gas and Steam Transient Analysis is Freaking Hard!

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 5 more

Taking Gas & Steam Transients to the xStream

Sustainability, Blog, process simulation + 18 more

AFT Supports Colorado Shooting Victims

Blog, Engineer, Financial Management + 5 more

AFT Participation in Hydraulic Institute Annual Conference

Reporting, Blog, Oil & Gas + 9 more

Will Hydrogen Be Our Future?

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 11 more

Scott Lang: Industry Person of the Week

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 6 more

Meet FLUMEN, AFT’s New Canadian Channel Partner

Blog, process simulation, Engineer + 5 more

Cloudy With a Chance of Herd Immunity

Blog, AI, Oil & Gas + 8 more

Using Flow Modeling for Efficient Upgrades and Expansions

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Software for System Design and Applications within Pipe Sizing

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Thermodynamics of Gas Piping Systems

Blog, Oil & Gas, Chemical + 7 more

ANSI/HI 9.8 Pump Submergence

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

Better than a Rule of Thumb

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

Top Considerations for Viscous Flow

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

A Scenic Journey into Colorado's Mining Past Over Engineer Pass

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Keeping the Future COVID-19 Vaccine Cool

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Space – Fiction and Reality Both Equally Entertain

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 7 more

Article: Going Beyond Efficiency Standards Part 1

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Article: Gas Handling- Process Control for Compressible Flow

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 8 more

Article: Maximizing Pump Reliability and System Cost

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 7 more

Predicting the Future is Easy

Blog, Engineer, Financial Management + 5 more

Article: Pump and System Curves for Multi-branched Systems

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

It's Star Wars Time Again!

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

5 Issues ANS Will Solve for the Time-Deficient Engineer

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Engineering Technology East and West: Riding on a Bullet (Train) in China

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 6 more

Engineers: Stress and Pressure at Work

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Published Article: Oversizing or Undersizing a Pump

Blog, Operations, Chemical + 9 more

Fluid Mechanics 101 – The Class That Changed My Life

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 12 more

My (Not So Secret) Disney Obsession

Blog, process simulation, Engineer + 6 more

An Unexpected Honor After 34 Years as an ASME Member

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Why Flow Analysis Is Neglected

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 11 more

6 Reasons Why You Need Flow Analysis

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 12 more

6 Reasons Why You Should Conduct A Flow Analysis

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 12 more

A Modern Equivalent of “Beating Swords into Plowshares”

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 7 more

The United States Government Is Shut Down. Does Anyone Care?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

AFT Partners with Softdesk CS of Poland

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 9 more

The Powerful Yet Frail Human Mind: Reality, Cognitive Biases, and Collective Hallucinations

Blog, Oil & Gas, Engineer + 9 more

Top 10 Features to Look For in a Flow Analysis Software

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 13 more

A Trillion Dollar Waterhammer Problem? Oh My!

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 8 more

AFT Partners with Cortex Engineering Software of Australia

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Where the Jobs Are(n’t)

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Channel Partner Spotlight - ImageGrafix Dubai

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 6 more

Reaching to the Sky in Dubai

Reporting, Blog, Oil & Gas + 10 more

AFT President to Present Three Papers at ASME Pressure Vessels & Piping (PVP) Conference

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 8 more

Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Which Is Better?

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 6 more

Hydropower Big and Small: My Recent Visit to a 5 MW Plant

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Workshop Visit to Beijing, China

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Stagnation vs. Static Pressure

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Tees - Idlechik

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Think Like a Fluid Engineer

Reporting, Blog, Operations + 8 more

The Itaipu Dam vs. the Hoover Dam is No Contest: Itaipu Wins By a Landslide

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 8 more

Get the Salt Out! California, Israel, the World...and Desalination Technology

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Hang on when riding a banshee on an alien world!

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

AFT Now Offering FREE Hydraulic Workshops Around the Globe

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

All the Sexy Aerospace Stuff That is Happening

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Are Oil Companies Really That Backwards?

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 9 more

America's Wacky New President...and Technology

Food & Beverage, Blog, Oil & Gas + 11 more

Seventy-Five Years After Pearl Harbor, Which Was 38 Years After First Flight at Kitty Hawk

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Waterhammer Analysis: Reactionary or Preventative?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 9 more

The Difficult Task of Balancing the Environment and the Economy

Sustainability, Blog, Engineer + 7 more

A 30,000 Foot View of the BREXIT Trend: Should We Stay or Should We Go - or Should We Even Care?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Predicting the Future? Oil, Politics, the Economy and Engineering

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 8 more

How Will the Death of Moore's Law Affect Engineers?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Congratulations 2015 AFT Platinum Pipe Award Winners!

Sustainability, Blog, Operations + 6 more

Databases 101 - Get to Know Them

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 6 more

Defining & Running 12 Scenarios in Less than 10 Minutes

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

How Many Models of the Same System Do You Have?

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

Why Are Engineers So Dissatisfied?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

The Blessing and Curse of Computational Engineering Software

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Falling Oil Prices...Good or Bad?

Blog, process simulation, Oil & Gas + 9 more

The Drones Are Coming! The Drones Are Coming!

Blog, Oil & Gas, Operations + 8 more

Engineering Beyond Our Own Island

Sustainability, Food & Beverage, Blog + 6 more

Burst Pipe at World Cup Stadium Showers Media With Pervasiveness of Fluid Systems

Reporting, Blog, Oil & Gas + 8 more

AFT Expands Flow Services With New Flow Expert Package

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 5 more

Changing Output Language in AFT Products

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 5 more

Using Duplicate Special to Easily Model Different Cases of an Single System

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

Challenges Executing Fluid Flow Projects?

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

AFT Efforts To Improve Global Presence and Service

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Are Technology and Automation Really Destroying Jobs?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Curious About Modeling Relief Valves?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Who said pipe flow can’t be fun? Disney’s World of Color water spectacular

Blog, process simulation, Engineer + 7 more

The Future of Engineering - Part 2

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

The Future of Engineering - Part 1

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 7 more

Jumping From Pipe to Pipe or Junction to Junction

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Problems With Heat Exchanger Specified Heat Rate In Constants?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Multi Scenario Output

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Viewing the Output on the Workspace

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Displaying the Fluid Name in Chempak Excel Add-in

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Using Zoom Select

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Setting the Default Property Unit Values

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Applying a Default Unit System

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Calculating Properties at Two Points

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Preferred Solution Method to Use for Optimization

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

Quick Inspection of the Connected Pipes or Junctions While in a Specification Window

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Modeling Component Resistance Curves

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Morphing Junctions

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

How to Display the Parameter Name in Chempak Add-in for Excel

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Chempak Viewer Parameter Display by Column or Row

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Add Custom Pipe Data to Your Database

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Hiding/Showing Items With Zero Costs in the Cost Report

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 5 more

Use Bookmarks to Accelerate Model Navigation

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Quick Inspection of Pipe and Junction Properties

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Keyboard Shortcuts

Blog, Engineer, Engineering + 5 more

Adjusting Ambient Pressure

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Selecting English or SI Units

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Highlight the Required Data Fields for Pipes or Junctions

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Calculating Saturated Liquid or Vapor Properties

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Calculating Properties for a Range of Values

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Changing the Order of Magnitude Displayed in the Cost Report

Reporting, Blog, Engineer + 5 more

Configuring the Output Data

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Setting Preferred Units

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Building Large Models - The Building Block Approach

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Setting Excel Add-in Units

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Calculating Results in Pipes and Junctions Not in Service

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Problems With Heat Exchanger Specified Heat Rate In Constants?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

Why I Like Bill Gates More Than Steve Jobs

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more

It’s the Economy, Stupid. Or Is It?

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 6 more

Thankful for the Opportunity to Shape a Changing World

Blog, Operations, Engineer + 5 more