Pumplinx

Infobox Software
name = PumpLinx



caption = PumpLinx GUI running a Piston Pump simulation.
developer = Simerics
latest_release_version = V2.3
latest_release_date = release date|2008|01|01
operating_system = Cross-platform [ [http://www.simerics.com/ ] ]
genre = Technical computing
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.simerics.com/pumplinx_software.html]

PumpLinx is a 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD software developed for the analysis of fluid pumps and motors and other fluid devices with rotating/sliding components. For liquid devices, PumpLinx has a Cavitation / cavitation model to account for the effect of liquid vapor, free/dissolved gas, and liquid compressibility. The software imports 3-D geometry from AutoCAD / CAD data in the form of stl files. It has Binary-Tree mesh generation tool which creates 3-D grid from CAD surfaces. PumpLinx provides templates for different categories of devices, including axial piston pumps, Centrifugal pump / centrifugal, Gerotor / gerotors, Gear pump / external gear, and Rotary vane pump / rotary vane. Those templates create an initial grid for special rotors; for example, grids around gears of a gear pump, and then re-meshes the grid for a moving simulation, and provide device specific input and output. The output from the code include velocities, pressures, temperatures, and gas volume fractions of the flow field, together with integrated engineering data such as loads and torques. PumpLinx uses a single Graphical User Interface (GUI) for grid generation, model set-up, execution, and post processing.

Market

The software is used primarily by component and system engineers in the automotive, hydraulic, and aerospace industry as a virtual test-bed to study efficiency, cavitation, pressure ripple, and noise for fluid pumps and motors.

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