Public Projects, Case Studies & Resources
As a specific type of quarter-turn valve, a ball valve employs an empty, punctured, and rotating ball device to control the fluid flow through it. When the ball’s hole is in line with the flow, the valve is operational, and closes when it is pivoted 90-degrees using an external handle. In this valve application guide, find some of our most popular public projects where you can learn how to analyze your design, evaluate the ball valve flow coefficient, perform a fluid flow (CFD) analysis, and find the ball valve pressure drop. On this page, you can also find relevant resources from our blog. What’s more? Hear what our customers with similar valve applications have to say about working with SimScale.
These types of valves can be applied in a variety of use cases, including but not limited to:
Ball valve applications need to be analyzed in the early design process to ensure design validation and, more specifically, optimize pressure drop and force behavior of the device.
Using cloud-based simulation from SimScale, you can evaluate the given pressure drop, fluid flow patterns, and force behavior. Using online evaluation, pressure drop can be reduced and design strengths and weaknesses can be determined early in the design process, allowing for fast optimization.
This public project explains how to internally mesh a ball valve, and then simulate its operation when water flows through it. For this experiment, the floating ball of the valve is characterized by a hollow cylinder through its center, with a diameter equal to the inner one of the pipelines. You can visualize re-circulation, as well as the critical areas of the ball valve pressure drop.
This public project explains how to internally mesh a ball valve, and then simulate its operation when water flows through it. For this experiment, the floating ball of the valve is characterized by a hollow cylinder through its center, with a diameter equal to the inner one of the pipelines. You can visualize re-circulation, as well as the critical areas of the ball valve pressure drop.
This project demonstrates how you can run a turbulent flow simulation of a ball valve and assess the ball valve flow coefficient.
“With the simulations done on SimScale, we characterized the valve (original goal), and gained much greater insight into the interaction between the valve and the fluid at each valve position. This will help us provide a better analysis in the future. SimScale has proved to be for the firm a flexible and scalable tool, which was critical for a HUBZone firm like ours.”
“Approaching the design process using simulation with SimScale allowed Diinef to avoid a costly and slow testing process of physical models in the early stages of the project.”
“At Quantex, the SimScale platform gives us access to powerful tools, in an economic package. The support is outstanding and helps add the most value to our engineering capabilities.”
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