SOFTWARE HISTORY
A timeline of Flownex® SE’s release updates and implementations from 1986 to today. Read more on our latest release notes.
Release 2020
Addition of ducting library. Psychrometric capabilities. Flow path graphing functionalities. P-H diagram plotting capabilities.
Release 2019
Adaptive timestep for transient solving. Cavity editor for rotating flow. Major heat exchanger updates. Graphing updates.
Release 2018
Liquid/gas mixtures modelling, FMI support and major visualisation enhancements.
Release 2017
ANSYS Workbench and CFX integration. Addition of Bulk air cooler, cooling tower and excess flow valve. Advancements for the Nuclear reactor to simulate LMCR and HTGR.
Release 2016
Addition of a positive displacement pump component and nuclear reactor to solve different types of reactors and fuels.
Release 2015
Development of film convection, gas radiation and jet impingement for combustion models. Integration with AFT Fathom, ROHR2, Coolprop and CAPE-OPEN.
Release 2014
Gas turbine secondary flow modelling, steam turbine modelling, GIS importing and coordinate system drawing, supersonic flow, simplified scripting, visualization & graphing, 3D drawing & importing, ANSYS coupling.
Release 2013
Expanded two-phase flow, expanded heat transfer, trace elements, RELAP Coupling.
Release 2011
Slurry flows, detailed combustion, cad and other importers.
Release 2010
Flownex® Simulation Environment, In-condensables, ASPEN Fluid integration.
Release 2009
Release of new Flownex® simulation environment with control and electric modules and Excel integration.
Flownex Update 2007
Equation element, API, parametric layers, pipe schedules.
Flownex Update 2006
Combustion modeling, momentum addition, radial pressure gradient.
Flownex Update 2005
Development of the homogeneous two phase modeling capability.
Update to Flownex
Implementation of rotating components and sub-networks.
Flownex - Object Oriented
Development of Flownex®, an object oriented version of Flownet.
Flownet 5
Implementation of gas mixtures and conduction elements.
PBMR simulation
Extension of code to simulate the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR).
Simulation code extended
Extension of code to deal with dynamic simulations of networks with time-dependent flows.
Rolls-Royce code extention
Extension of code to deal with aircraft engine combustion systems for Rolls-Royce.
IPCM Development
Development of the Implicit Pressure Correction Method (IPCM) algorithm.
Initial Development of Flownet
Initial development of a code called Flownet based on Hardy-Cross method to solve air and water distribution networks on mines.