Pipe Flow Advisor

With liquid being required to power our vehicles and provide water supplies to homes, well-built pipe systems need to make sure flow is constant, safe and reaches the destination. Computer applications greatly enhance project design, with Pipe Flow Advisor letting you determine how fast liquid passes through various pipe types, according to several technical specifications.

The application won't win a beauty contest with the overall design, but it's pretty well-organized, with all areas stored in tabs, while most space being dedicated to adding values, previewing design and gathering up results generated by the application.

There are multiple circumstances that can be taken into consideration, with the pipe library being properly designed. From simple, round types to rectangle tubes and vee channels, each come with either a full or partial fill rate, depending on your projects. This is not all, with more options for various tank designs like circular, cylinder, sphere or hoppers.

What's more, an impressive representation of the pipe design is displayed, with measurement fields and lines that let you specify length, diameter, water level, as well as a drop-down menu that lets you pick the Manning coefficient depending on the environment type.

Results are generated for up to four situations. You can determine water flow rate, depth, volume and weight, as well as length expansion, or an approximation of the time it takes for a tank to empty. Each option makes several info fields available, which are automatically filled in once you press the dedicated button.

You can quickly export options by having results sent to your clipboard, directly printed out on a sheet of paper or saved under several file formats. Sadly, the application is strictly dedicated to water, with no fields to specify viscosity or density, which slightly reduces the overall practicality of the application.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Pipe Flow Advisor is a neat calculus application that can greatly enhance the design of complex pipe systems by letting you know how fast water gets from one point to the other. The simple, yet highly-intuitive design gets you instantly up and running, while value fields and the possibility to change measurement units make for an accurate and practical application.