Data Centers

Liquid Cooling Infrastructure Your Team Can Validate, Defend, and Build On

Simulate, validate, and optimize your full cooling system before problems reach the field. PIPE-FLO gives engineering teams a rigorous fluid modeling environment trusted across design, specification, and operations.

Years as engineering standard

Decimal precision calculations

150+

Integrated pump manufacturers

6,000+

Fluid properties in database

The challenge

Cooling Failures Don’t Announce Themselves. They Wait Until the Worst Possible Moment.

A chiller plant failure at a data center forced the world’s largest futures exchange to halt trading in FX and commodities. One cooling system failure. Global market disruption, millions in losses, and lasting reputational damage to everyone in the chain.

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$1M+

Average cost of unplanned downtime per incident in mission-critical facilities

30%

Of cooling system failures trace back to hydraulic imbalance, a system-level problem that components alone can’t reveal

2-5x

Projected growth in data center cooling demand by 2030

DESIGN & SPECIFICATION TEAMS

Unvalidated system model

Design assumptions go untested until commissioning, when finding problems is expensive and schedule-breaking.

ALL TEAMS

Disconnected toolchain

AutoCAD, BIM, Excel, and CFD tools each hold a piece of the picture. Fidelity erodes at every handoff between them.

OWNER-OPERATORS & HYPERSCALERS

Redundancy that isn’t

N+1 configurations that look right on paper often haven’t been hydraulically validated. When the primary fails, the backup may perform differently than designed.

A&E FIRMS & EPCS

Hard to win competitive bids

Clients expect simulation-backed performance data. Firms that can present validated designs win work that others lose.

How PIPE-FLO fits your workflow

One Model Across the Entire Project Lifecycle

PIPE-FLO works across every project phase. Design teams build the model during feasibility and carry it through specification, commissioning, and handoff. Owner-operators use the same model to manage performance and plan expansion. The system always has a validated reference, at every stage, for every team that needs it.

STAGE I

Proof of concept

Rough-size equipment and simulate pressure, flow, and cooling capacity in early planning. De-risk concept decisions before committing to a design direction.

STAGE II

Design and specifications

Rough-size equipment and simulate pressure, flow, and cooling capacity in early planning. De-risk concept decisions before committing to a design direction.

STAGE III

Commissioning and balancing

Generate flushing and purge plans. Virtually balance system flows using model-based simulations before any field adjustments begin.

STAGE IV

Operations optimization

Compare expected versus actual system behavior using real data. Identify energy waste, throttling issues, and cooling distribution imbalances.

STAGE V

Failure simulation

Simulate failure conditions and diagnose root causes (flow restriction, cavitation, pressure loss) without touching live operations.

STAGE VI

Expansion and retrofits

Model future cooling zones, add rack capacities, or reconfigure loops using the existing model, with confidence in every change.

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Core capabilities

Built for Liquid Cooling at Data Center Scale

PIPE-FLO models the full cooling circuit (CDUs, pumps, control valves, heat exchangers, distribution manifolds, and expansion tanks) as a single connected network. Engineers simulate real operating conditions across the entire system, with every component interacting as it would in the field.

Primary and secondary circuit stress testing with PIPE-FLO Professional

Run capacity scenarios across your full cooling system to find failure points before they become field problems. Unlike general CFD tools designed for airflow or electrical simulation, PIPE-FLO is built specifically for fluid piping.

Thermal transient analysis

Using Thermal Storage, simulate how the system responds to sudden thermal loads, including the dynamic conditions that cause failures under real operation.

Redundancy validation

Hydraulically validate N+1 configurations before handoff. Know that when the primary fails, the backup performs exactly as designed.

What-if scenarios in minutes

Use OverTime to quickly test design changes, alternate configurations, or failure conditions , without disrupting your model or the project schedule.

CAD and BIM import

Import your existing CAD model files directly into Flo-Sheet, preserving geometry fidelity all the way through to hydraulic calculations.

Digital twin handoff

The model your design team delivers becomes the operator’s live system reference via Digital Twin Studio, syncing real operational data to keep it current long after the project closes.

Proven results

What Engineering Teams Actually Get

Across design firms, EPCs, hyperscalers, semiconductor fabricators, and co-location operators, PIPE-FLO users consistently report fewer surprises at commissioning, faster design cycles, and a validated model they can present with confidence to clients and stakeholders.

Catch system-level problems before they become field problems
Run what-if scenarios in minutes rather than days
Validate redundancy configurations before handoff
Present simulation-backed performance data in client reviews
Improve PUE and WUE with precision-tuned pump selection, flow distribution, and pressure control, generating defensible model-based data for regulatory reporting.
Hand off a working digital twin alongside your drawing set

One model, all stakeholders

Keep Everyone Aligned from First Sketch to Final Handoff

Data center projects involve designers, contractors, owners, and operators who all need to understand system behavior. PIPE-FLO gives them a shared model rather than a chain of translated documents that loses fidelity at every step.

Collaborative modeling

Designers, contractors, and operators stay aligned on a shared system model from P&ID through commissioning.

Client and stakeholder sign-off

Simplify design reviews and owner approvals with clear flow visualizations and simulation-backed performance data anyone can interpret.

Project continuity

Preserve system integrity across every handoff. Avoid data loss, model rebuilds, and costly disconnects when teams change.

See Pipe-Flo on a Real Data Center Cooling Model

Talk to one of our engineers. We’ll walk through a model that maps to your project type, with a focus on the scenarios that matter most to your work.