Computational study of pressure drop dependence on pleat shape and filter media

It is demonstrated how the influence of pleat shape and filter media on pressure drop can be easily studied by computer simulation, without any knowledge of computational fluid dynamics. This is made possible by thorough interaction of the software tools PleatDict (virtual design of pleats) and ParPac (computational fluid dynamics). Furthermore, it is shown how the capabilities of those codes can be extended by coupling them with the software tools GeoDict, FilterDict, and SuFiS.