Case Study: OVAL Corporation improves flowmeter accuracy and development speed with Hexagon SC/Tetra

Using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) upfront to design better flowmeters

OVAL Corporation, a manufacturer of flowmeters, was facing challenges with the accuracy and processing speed of their existing fluid analysis software. They sought a better computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution to improve product design and achieve front-loading in their development process. This led them to partner with vendor Hexagon and evaluate their SC/Tetra CFD software.

Hexagon's SC/Tetra provided a powerful and user-friendly solution, offering fast automatic mesh generation, a highly effective post-processor, and robust technical support. The solution enabled OVAL to validate analysis against experimental data with high accuracy, particularly using the SST K-ω turbulence model. The implementation by Hexagon has set the stage for reducing prototyping costs and development time, allowing OVAL to more efficiently design custom flowmeters for a wide variety of customer specifications.

OVAL Corporation

Takeshi Motomiya

Assistant Manager