Does anyone know of any CFD consulting firms that can model a tilting disk check valve with the following parameters?

24" Crane 5° tilting disk check valve

Flowrates will range from 100 gpm to 12000 gpm

I have talked with Fluent and they said that they had a Beta test version of their code that would combine the fluids and structures components, but are not sure of the accuracy yet..

Note: Structures are required since part of the problem is to determine the disk position and if the disk flutters at the low flows.

CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) provides software and consulting services for CFD. We have a fully functional code (CFD-ACE+) to do coupled fluid-structure interaction problems. It is also being currently used by our clients for such applications.

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