FT Titan - Intelligent Sizing for Compressible Flow Piping Systems Windows With ever increasing complexity, sizing today�s compressible flow systems for minimal cost surpasses the best traditional design methods. Human intelligence cannot comprehensively handle the often staggering number of variables involved, resulting in missed opportunities to reduce cost. Now, AFT Titan� with IntelliFlow� eliminates these boundaries. Providing the systems engineer a new technology to intelligently size the system as a whole, your compressible flow piping system can be optimally sized resulting in substantial cost savings. With comprehensive system modeling capabilities, a flexible graphical interface and an advanced optimization engine, AFT Titan offers a quantum leap improvement to the traditional pipe and duct design process. What is intelligent system sizing? Traditional engineering methods are limited in their ability to select pipes, ducts and equipment sizes on a system basis. Even simple systems will have billions of potential size combinations to consider for their various components, far too many to evaluate by traditional methods. In contrast, intelligent system sizing selects all components simultaneously as a unit. This is the essence of IntelliFlow� technology. AFT Titan harnesses this technology to automatically identify and select the lowest cost design to meet your requirements. With AFT Titan, you specify the design requirementsand sizing criteria. Sizing criteria may be to minimize initial or life cycle cost, or parameters such as pipe weight, volume or surface area. AFT Titan then performs a comprehensive analysis of the complex interaction among the various components to intelligently determine the optimal sizes of piping, ducting, compressors and fans, valves and other system components. The savings in materials, installation, energy and other costs associated with your piping or ducting system can be dramatic. Traditional methods of system sizing simply can�t compare. No matter how good your design methods are, AFT Titan is guaranteed to reduce cost. AFT Titan is built on and includes all of the modeling building tools and analysis capabilities of AFT Arrow. Models of compressible piping systems may be developed and analyzed within AFT Titan as in AFT Arrow. Model files developed within either AFT Arrow or AFT Titan may be opened by the other application. Please refer to tthe AFT Arrow pages for a description of of these modeling capabilities. In addition to these powerful analysis and modeling simulation capabilities, AFT Arrow employs IntelliFlow� determine optimal pipe and equipment sizes that will meet system performance requirements at minimum cost. What is IntelliFlow�? IntelliFlow� combines powerful network pipe flow analysis algorithms with state-of-the-art numerical optimization algorithms to intelligently evaluatethe complex interaction of system design variables. The system design is repeatedly perturbed and re-analyzed to define the shape of the design space, revealing combinations of design parameters that minimize cost. Design constraints specified by the engineer direct the search in areas that satisfy design requirements such as pressure, velocity and compressor pressure rise. Searching continues until an optimum design is found, which is then presented to the user. Selected through Optimization Control, AFT Titan will perform either and Engineering Optimization or a Cost Optimization.