One of the important lines of business for LIXIL Corporation, Japan’s largest building and equipment manufacturer, is the water technology products, such as baths, kitchens and toilets.
LIXIL is trying to introduce Particleworks, a meshless multiparticle simulation (MPS) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool in the research and development of these products.
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Particleworks is an advanced CFD Software solution, based on the Moving Particle Simulation (MPS) method.
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CASE STUDY
The article describes a study on the behaviour of a vertical-axis washing machine's hydraulic balancer, which is a critical component that helps to balance the load during the spinning phase of the washing cycle. The study was conducted by SPM, a company that specializes in dynamic analysis, to confirm a hypothesis that the flexibility of the tub was causing the imbalance and to validate a proposed modification to stiffen the structure.
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