CHT Engineering provides independent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) consulting services to civil, mechanical, and process engineering firms throughout Australia.
Water Infrastructure & Utilities
Resolving complex hydraulic challenges to ensure regulatory compliance, optimize chemical dosing, and protect critical municipal assets.
- ANSI/HI 9.8 Compliance: Mitigating non-uniform velocity profiles at pump bell mouths.
- Pump Station Dynamics: Analyzing free-surface vortex entrainment in wet wells and intake structures.
- Treatment & Containment: Eliminating hydraulic short-circuiting and dead zones in storage reservoirs and primary clarifiers.
Mining & Minerals Processing
Predicting aggressive material behavior, maximizing processing yields, and extending equipment lifespans in severe environments.
- Slurry Flow & Erosion: Modeling high-pressure slurry dynamics to isolate and predict abrasive wear along pipe fittings.
- Classification & Separation: Optimizing multiphase phase interactions and particle tracking inside hydrocyclones and thickeners.
- Flotation & Pumping: Troubleshooting adverse internal flow separations in slurry pumps and flotation cells.
Chemical & Process Engineering
Optimizing fluid residence times, ensuring mixing uniformity, and streamlining thermal and pressure gradients in high-risk environments.
- Reactor Mixing Scales: Resolving inadequate blending, macro-mixing scales, and dead zones in stirred reactors.
- Phase-Change Modeling: Characterizing complex fluid behaviors across localized boiling and condensation thresholds.
- Multiphase VOF Modeling: Tracking highly volatile gas-liquid interfaces and phase changes with precision.
- Safety Systems: Troubleshooting transient backpressures and high-velocity choking inside pressure relief valves.
Power Generation & Clean Energy
Maximizing aerodynamic and thermodynamic efficiencies across fluid loops, thermal storage networks, and renewable assets.
- Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT): Mapping fluid-solid temperature fields and thermal boundary layers.
- Thermal Optimization: Minimizing severe pressure drops across complex shell-and-tube heat exchanger channels.
- Renewable Frameworks: Evaluating wind-turbine wake aerodynamics and exhaust path waste-heat recovery units.
HVAC & Built Environment
Validating indoor air quality, thermal comfort indices, and external atmospheric pollutant dispersion parameters.
- Ventilation Compliance: Mapping localized carbon monoxide accumulation in enclosed commercial car parks.
- Contaminant Dispersion: Modeling localized pollution and toxic gas plumes around building exhaust stacks.
- Specialized Spaces: Validating cleanroom pressure isolation and convective airflow pathing in high-density data centers.
Heavy Machinery & Manufacturing
Eliminating internal aerodynamic losses, reducing fluid-induced energy waste, and optimizing complex flow routing.
- Manifold Optimization: Isolating and resolving high-velocity pressure drops across complex hydraulic manifolds.
- Turbomachinery Design: Eliminating boundary layer separation zones on aerodynamic blades in fans and blowers.
- Flow Control: Enhancing distribution splits and internal flow streams through industrial valve configurations.