Whether you’re a seasoned engineer or new to transient analysis, the seminar provides valuable insights and practical techniques for improving system design, enhancing operational safety, and optimizing performance.

Led by expert instructors, this seminar covers both the theoretical foundations and practical implementation of AFT Impulse. Attendees will learn how to create accurate models, interpret simulation results, and troubleshoot common issues that arise during transient conditions in fluid systems.

Participants will gain hands-on experience in modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic events such as water hammer, valve closures, pump startups within pipelines and complex fluid networks, and more.

Seminar Cost: $1,300 – (3 days / 6 hours per day)

Attendees will receive:

• Additional training licenses
• Custom reference materials
• Certificate for 18 hours of training

Training Topics:

• Understand surge communication times
• Modeling transient cavitation
• Model pump transients, including inertial effects
• Modeling time & event-based transients
• Model relief & vacuum breaker valves
• Troubleshoot AFT Impulse models
• Predict unbalanced pipe forces
• Choosing the best trade-offs between model run times
• Model pipe sectioning round off errors
• Understand graph & animation features
• Size & locate surge suppression equipment

NOTE: You MUST be familiar with AFT Fathom as a prerequisite for this course.

Speaker Information

Trey Walters, PE, AFT Founder & ASME Fellow

Trey founded AFT in 1993 and has over 40 years of experience in thermal/fluid system engineering. He has taught training seminars and workshops on fluid system modeling in 15 countries and has authored or co-authored 30 technical papers for conferences and publications. He is Chairman of the Hydraulic Institute’s Waterhammer Committee. His contributions to the engineering profession resulted in his election to Fellow of the ASME.