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Pipe Flow & Hydraulic Analysis Software models the behavior of fluids moving through piping and pipeline networks, performing steady-state and transient calculations to determine flow rates, pressure drops, and pressure balance across interconnected pipes, pumps, valves, and tanks. It supports open and closed loop systems with multiple supply and discharge points, and multiple pumps in series or parallel. Tools typically include pipe, fittings, and fluid property databases, visual network builders, scenario comparison features, and reporting capabilities, enabling engineers to size pipes and pumps, analyze surge or water hammer events, and simulate complex fluid dynamics including non-Newtonian fluids and multiphase flow.
This category addresses the difficulty of manually predicting how fluids behave in complex piping systems, eliminating guesswork in sizing pipes, pumps, and valves. It helps engineers avoid costly design errors, inefficient flow distribution, excessive pressure drop, and equipment damage from surge or water hammer events. By enabling what-if scenario comparisons and accurate modeling of varying operating conditions, it reduces the risk of system failures, undersized or oversized components, and energy waste. It also supports flow assurance by identifying issues like hydrate formation, and improves reliability, safety, and cost-efficiency of piping systems across industries such as water distribution, oil and gas, chemical processing, and HVAC.
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by Siemens
Simulation tool for designing, commissioning and operating thermo-fluid piping systems, sizing and balancing gas, liquid and two-phase systems with static and transient solvers. Models dynamic events such as pump failure, pressure surge and cavitation, and the same model can be reused as a digital twin during operation.

by Bentley Systems
Hydraulic modeling software for analyzing, designing and optimizing water distribution networks. It includes the capabilities of WaterGEMS, WaterCAD and HAMMER, covering steady-state, extended-period and transient (water hammer) analysis.

by Octave
Octave Aspect is a suite of engineering analysis solutions that enables organisations to analyse, validate, and optimise
by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Public-domain software application for modeling hydraulic and water quality behavior of pressurized pipe networks in drinking water distribution systems, with extended-period simulation, a visual network editor and a programmer's toolkit.
by Flite Software
Pipe flow simulation software for designing, analyzing and troubleshooting liquid, gas, two-phase, slurry and non-Newtonian piping systems. It calculates pressure drop and flow distribution in branched networks, and sizes pumps, control valves and relief devices.

by Datacor
Waterhammer and surge analysis software that calculates pressure surge transients in liquid pumping systems using an MOC-based transient solver, and helps size surge protection devices.
by Gregg Engineering
Hydraulic pipeline simulation suite for gas and liquid pipelines that integrates steady state, sequential, transient predictive, transient online and transient look ahead simulation in one application.
by Pipe Flow Software
Piping design and pipe system modeling software that calculates flow rates and pressure drops in open and closed loop pipe networks with multiple tanks, pumps and fittings.
by PIPE-FLO
Hydraulic and compressed gas piping system modeling and performance analytics software, extending PIPE-FLO Professional to gas systems.

by Datacor
Steady-state pipe flow simulation software that calculates pressure drop and flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems, with a visual network builder and Scenario Manager for what-if comparisons.
by PIPE-FLO
Hydraulic piping system modeling and performance analytics software for liquid systems, using a visual FLO-Sheet interface to calculate balanced flows and pressures, pump TDH and NPSH, and control valve design points.
by KYPipe
Pipe2026 is a stand-alone graphical interface and suite of hydraulic calculation engines (KYPipe, Surge, TranSurge, Gas, Steam, SuperSteam, GoFlow, GoPlot, SWMM) for steady-state and transient analysis of piping systems.
by 3S Consult
Hydraulic modelling software for the calculation, simulation, analysis and optimization of flow processes in gas, water and heat supply networks, plants, pipelines and caverns, covering steady-state and transient (pressure surge) calculations.
by Gregg Engineering
Steady state hydraulic simulation application that calculates balanced pressure-flow relationships for gathering, transmission and distribution networks carrying liquid, steam and natural gas.