From Hytran Solutions web site:

Hytran is a Windows software package for analyzing HYdraulic TRANsients or water hammer in pipelines. Intuitive Windows graphics enable a pipeline to be drawn, input data, edited and ready for analysis in minutes.

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Hytran features:

• Metric or English Units
• Pipeline drawn with mouse
• 16 Boundary Conditions (BC’s) pumps, valves etc.
• No limit on the number of pipes, nodes or BC’s
• Pipe nodes may be snapped together
• Drag and drop BC’s to nodes
• Comprehensive pump options (fail, start, shut, & run)
• Rapid input to pipe data
• Input data dialogs at a click
• Visual indicator to show input data is required
• Network can be drawn on an elevation or plan view
• Zooming facilities
• Re-number nodes & pipes
• Valve database provided for head loss coefficients
• Pipe database provided pipe materials
• Import EPANET Network Data
• Extensive online help
• Software video Tutorial and Help
• Free bonus software HyPlot which may be copied and redistributed to clients for re-playing the transients
• Simple graphical editing of pipeline
• Edit the pipeline and BC’s at any time
• Cut/copy & paste BC’s to different nodes
• Delete pipes and nodes
• Try different BC’s without having to edit external files
• Extensive network checks to minimize errors
• Running the transients
• Hytran carries out extensive network and hydraulic checks to minimize and run time errors or false transients
• Real time display of the instantaneous transients along pipe profile
• View transients at different location in the pipeline network
• Flow direction in pipes showing influence on transients
• Column separation indicator when cavitation occurs
• Extensive output plots and text listing
• View transient plots anywhere at a mouse click

For more information see Hytran Solutions web site.

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