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AFT Fathom Reviews & Product Details

Fathom is the industry-standard software for steady-state hydraulic flow analysis. Developed by engineers for engineers, it is used in over 113 countries and across every major industry. Fathom is the preferred tool for process design engineers to analyze, design, and troubleshoot piping and ducting systems—saving time and resources compared to manual calculations or spreadsheets. Fathom delivers confident and accurate calculations for designing safe, reliable, and efficient pumping systems. Known for its intuitive interface and report-ready outputs, Fathom has a short learning curve and provides fast, reliable results for engineering teams.

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Datacor

Product Description

AFT Fathom is fluid dynamic simulation software for engineers, used to calculate pressure drop and pipe flow distribution in liquid and low-velocity gas piping and ducting systems.

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Jeremy Ploessel

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AFT Fathom Demo - Hydraulic solution engine

Fathom’s hydraulic solution engine uses the Newton-Raphson matrix iteration method plus proprietary methods developed by AFT to solve pipe flow and duct flow applications. Fathom uses the Bernoulli’s Equation and Reynolds Number-based relationships for pipe friction calculation.

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AFT Fathom Reviews (15)

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Sumit S.

Senior Process Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2021

"AFT Fathom is one of the Best tool for Hydraulic calculations."

5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

Feature to compare multiple cases in one output window is very helpful.

Visual report is very good to analyse the overall model.

Feature of adding vendor curves for Pumps is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

Needs significant improvement in combined report generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AFT Fathom:

AFT Fathom is very good tool for hydraulic calculation. It provides multi level checking which helps to reduce error and saves time.

Visual Report is very helpful to analyse entire network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AFT Fathom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am extensively using AFT Fathom for Pump hydraulic, control valve hydraulic and line sizing calculations.

It saves time and gives freedom to try multiple scenario in single model by simply creating a new case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santosh K.

Sr. Process Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/2/2021

"AFT Fathom and AFT Impulse software's are very useful for Process engineers"

5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

Fathom is user friendly and provides an easy way to analyze various scenarios in one file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

In pipe fitting section for defining expander/reducer, in place of area ratio there can be pipe size Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AFT Fathom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Piping network design, rating and analysis. To understand route cause analysis of plant operational issues and finding out solutions for them. Fire water system design. Plant asset health monitoring like fouling level in system and planning for maintenance. Cost-benefit by suggesting options to improve operating efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/15/2021

"AFT Fathom does the job"

4/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

Best feature is scenario creations. I specifically like this because i can present multiple solutions at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

I dislike the absence of smart ness eg. use of polylines for pipes with automatic inclusion of bends and fittings, automatic inclusion of isolation valves on either side of pumps. ( At least the option of automatic inclusion should pop up and its based on user, same can be selected or rejected). These features would make model creation faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AFT Fathom:

AFT Fathom is an useful tool however AFT Fathom should make a few applications smart which will ease the model creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AFT Fathom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have solved multiple scenarios of waste water sludge pumping systems. The benefit derived was presenting multiple solutions at a time and helped in optioneering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hung L.

Lead Process Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/4/2021

"user friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

single user, multiple users, desktop installation, network installation, GUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

not extensive of thermodynamics properties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sara Z.

Process Engineer (P.Eng.)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/12/2021

"Practical for network of pipelines"

4/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

The feature that allows you to modify a group of junctions or pipes makes it really convenient and time saving in case a parameter needs to change in the model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

Run time is relatively slow when compared to software like HYSYS that show realtime results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AFT Fathom:

You may use this product when modeling bigger network of pipes such as coolong water or gylcol network when too many branches have to be built. Not very practical for smaller hydraulics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AFT Fathom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pipeline hydraulics and valve sizing. Thr feature "Scenario Creating" in the model itself helps with project organization by removing the need to make mutiple copies of a file for multiple runs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pragnesh P.

Process Engineer (Manager)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/7/2021

"good interface and easy to understand even for new users"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

Majorly interface part and tools that available for the modeling &results representation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

- Unable to relocate the tables/results of the particular lines that causing overlapping and hard to analyze for large and complex networks.

- Need improvement in the error reporting, specifically for the phase change errors for networks that carry fluid at saturated components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AFT Fathom:

Understand the network behavior before running an analysis on software that will allow one to understand and specifically error resolving/troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AFT Fathom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Large and complex hydraulic networks analysis that help optimization and ultimately cost reduction both Fixed and Operating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ghulam Mohammed Ameer P.

Process Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/16/2021

"One of the best tool for Process Engineers to calculate pressure drop through the pipes"

5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

It's interface is too handy to learn and to explore the calculation in easiest possible way,that helps to converge the system without making it complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

Being a Process Engineer, I didn't find anything dislike able in AFT Fathom.

It's damn too easy to do process engineering stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranay G.

Process Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/12/2021

"Great Software for Hydraulic Modeling"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

The ability to allow valves to be open or close for all hydraulic calculations. The readily available data on pumps and pump curves etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

I would like to price to be made more competitive for today's environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/23/2021

"Used AFT Fathom for water system"

5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

It is very user friendly with all the nodes are well defined. The flow diagram can be directly replicated on Fathom model and will run to check the static simulation. The user interface is very easy to replicate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

In case of any error, it is hard to identify the node with targeted error properties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/26/2021

"Great technical support."

3.5/5

What do you like best about AFT Fathom?

Support for Slurry transport model, easy user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AFT Fathom?

The transient capability is still restricted on AFT impulse, and drainage studies can not be done accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AFT Fathom:

A lot of time can be saved using AFT. Many inbuilt and user-defined functions help to solve complex problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AFT Fathom solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are doing hydraulic calculations for slurry flow—great interface and time saving over using excel templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.