Let’s be honest: the plumbing industry has been coasting.
While every other sector has been disrupted, transformed, and reimagined by silicon valley innovation, plumbing has remained stubbornly analog. Pipes. Water. Gravity. The same playbook since Roman aqueducts.
Until today.
Introducing the synsyr Flow Dynamics Simulator
Our founder — whose bathroom renovation last year reportedly sparked a three-month deep dive into fluid mechanics — has always believed that infrastructure is the backbone of civilization. Not metaphorical infrastructure. Actual pipes.
“Why,” they are rumored to have asked during an all-hands meeting, “does nobody talk about Reynolds numbers at dinner parties?”
We couldn’t answer that question. But we could build a tool that makes Reynolds numbers accessible to everyone.
What It Does
The Residential Flow Dynamics Simulator lets anyone — homeowner, contractor, or Chief Plumbing Officer — model water flow through residential piping systems in real time.
Configure:
- 7 pipe diameters from 3/8” to 2”
- 5 materials including copper, PEX, CPVC, galvanized steel, and PVC
- Pipe length, fittings, and supply pressure
See instant results for flow rate, velocity, pressure drop, and flow regime classification. With animated particle visualization, because we believe that water deserves to look as good as it performs.
Real-World Impact
For Homeowners: Never again will you hire a contractor without being able to say “but what about the Hazen-Williams coefficient?” with full confidence and complete irrelevance to the conversation.
For Contractors: Impress clients by pulling up a simulator during estimates. Do they need to understand Reynolds numbers? No. Will showing them a Reynolds number make them trust you more? Absolutely.
For Fortune 500 Companies: Major corporations spend billions on facility water infrastructure annually. Our simulator could potentially save them… well, nothing, because they already have engineers for this. But it could save them the cost of understanding what their engineers are doing, which we value at approximately $2.3 billion per year.
Enterprise Infrastructure Analytics Suite
| Package | Features | Annual License |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | Single-family simulation | $0 (forever free) |
| Commercial | Multi-story modeling, sprinkler systems | $42,500/yr |
| Municipal | City-wide water network analysis | $890,000/yr |
| Planetary | Terraform water systems for Mars | $4.7B (one-time) |
The free tier includes everything. The paid tiers include everything plus an email from us confirming that you paid.
Try It Now
The Flow Dynamics Simulator is live in synsyr Labs. Go adjust some pipe diameters. Watch the particles flow. Question every plumbing decision you’ve ever made.
Your pipes will thank you. (They won’t. They’re pipes. But the metaphor stands.)
— BHA
Brent Hollowell-Ashford is Director of Infrastructure Synergetics at synsyr. He once described himself as “the Malcolm Gladwell of water pressure” and no one in the room corrected him, which he considers a professional milestone.