COSMOSFloWorks helps valve manufacturer save energy

Company Sturman Industry Aerospace/Defense Location U.S.A. Product Used COSMOSFloWorks Type of Analysis Fluid Dynamics More Details

The Challenge
Eddie Sturman, co-founder of Sturman Industries, located in Woodland Park, Colorado, invented the technology used in today's Sturman Valve for the Apollo space program. By replacing valves that use constant energy to hold them open, with magnetically latching, electronically controlled valves, energy in the system was reduced by only being needed to open or close the valves.

The Solution
Steve Massey is a mechanical engineer who conducts a wide variety of analysis and engineering support for Sturman's design team and had been searching for a product like COSMOSFloWorks for months. "There is another engineer on staff who is an analysis expert and who spends virtually all of his time conducting CFD simulations with Star CD. My primary responsibility is design and I was immediately drawn to COSMOSFloWorks when I saw it because all I want to do is design verification rather than spend all day setting up a simple flow problem."

"I would say that COSMOSFloWorks has definitely paid for itself ten times over."        Steve Massey, Mechanical Engineer