WATHAM simulates the transient behaviour of pressurised piping systems carrying a Newtonian fluid.
The system can range from a very small piped-process module, a
cross-country pipeline, through to a whole town's water supply
distribution network. The specialised tool simulates most
enclosed pipe hydraulic installations likely to be met in
practice.
It is most often used to assess and protect systems from damage caused by pressure surges. In systems transporting a very large fluid mass, it can help quantify how automatic controls need to be tuned to match the time it takes the system to respond to pump status and valve position changes.
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It handles most combinations of:
