The Role of CFD in New Product Development 

SYNOPSIS

A new device must be designed, engineered, prototyped, and tested. This cycle repeats continuously until the product completely functions as intended.

When Zentech’s client urgently needed to bring a new, patent pending valve design to market, there was no time to waste. The valve contained numerous extremely small openings and sensitive tolerances that needed to be optimized to ensure it would work as intended.   Through a partnership with Resolved Analysis, the use of simulation was able to disrupt the traditional NPD cycle.  By utilizing CFD, the entire domain of the valve could be visualized, and the pressure profiles and forces could be tracked across every surface within the valve.  Changes to valve component positions, sizes and even material properties could be quickly and easily tested using computational fluid dynamics, providing a tremendous time savings compared to iterative testing in a physical prototype. 

Zentech Incorporated is determined to provide their clients solutions to difficult engineering problems, and with the help of Resolved Analytics and CFD modeling, Zentech’s client was thrilled to have a working, optimized new product design at a fraction of the time of traditional NPD methods.

VALUES/HIGHLIGHTS

Zentech is a leader in solving a very diverse range of engineering problems and supplies solutions and designs for drilling/piping, mechanical, electrical, and structural related industries.  CFD analysis allowed Zentech to rapidly test new product designs with phenomenal ease and speed.