Motivation
One of the key challenges in Pipe Flow Dynamics is to predict the pressure distribution along the pipe during the steady-state fluid transport.
In many practical cases the stationary pressure distribution can be approximated by Isothermal or Quasi-isothermal homogenous fluid flow model.
Pipeline Flow Pressure Model is addressing this problem with account of the varying pipeline trajectory, gravity effects and fluid friction with pipeline walls.
Outputs
Assumptions
| Steady-State flow | Quasi-isothermal flow |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle \frac%7B\partial p%7D%7B\partial t%7D = 0 |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle \frac%7B\partial T%7D%7B\partial t%7D =0 \rightarrow T(t,l) = T(l) |
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| Homogenous flow | |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle \frac%7B\partial p%7D%7B\partial \tau_x%7D =\frac%7B\partial p%7D%7B\partial \tau_y%7D =0 \rightarrow p(t, \tau_x,\tau_y,l) = p(l) |
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Equations
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| \left( \rho(p) - j_m^2 \cdot c(p) \right) \cdot \frac{dp}{dl} = \rho^2(p) \, g \, \cos \theta(l) - \frac{ j_m^2 }{2 d} \cdot f(p) |
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| p(l=0) = p_0 |
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| u(l) = \frac{j_m}{\rho(l)} |
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| q(l) =A \cdot u(l) |
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where
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle j_m =\frac%7B \rho_0 \, q_0%7D%7BA%7D= \rm const |
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| mass flux |
| Fluid flowrate at inlet point () |
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| body | \rho_0 = \rho(T_0, p_0) |
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| Fluid density at inlet point () |
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| body | \rho(l) = \rho(T(l), p(l)) |
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| Fluid density at any point |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle с(p) = \frac%7B1%7D%7B\rho%7D \left( \frac%7B\partial \rho%7D%7B\partial p%7D \right)_T |
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| Fluid Compressibility |
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| body | --uriencoded--f(T, \rho) = f(%7B\rm Re%7D(T, \rho), \, \epsilon) |
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| Darcy friction factor |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle %7B\rm Re%7D(T,\rho) = \frac%7Bj_m \cdot d%7D%7B\mu(T, \rho)%7D |
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| Reynolds number in Pipe Flow |
| dynamic viscosity as function of fluid temperature and density |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle d = \sqrt%7B \frac%7B4 A%7D%7B\pi%7D%7D= \rm const |
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| Characteristic linear dimension of the pipe (or exactly a pipe diameter in case of a circular pipe) |
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| \frac{dp}{dl} = \left( \frac{dp}{dl} \right)_G + \left( \frac{dp}{dl} \right)_K + \left( \frac{dp}{dl} \right)_f |
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where
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle \left( \frac%7Bdp%7D%7Bdl%7D \right)_G = \rho \cdot g \cdot \cos \theta |
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gravity losses which represent pressure losses for upward flow and pressure gain for downward flow |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle \left( \frac%7Bdp%7D%7Bdl%7D \right)_K = u%5e2 \cdot \frac%7Bd \rho%7D%7Bdl%7D |
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kinematic losses, which grow contribution at high velocities
and high fluid compressibility (like turbulent gas flow) |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle \left( \frac%7Bdp%7D%7Bdl%7D \right)_f = - \frac%7B j_m%5e2%7D%7B2 d%7D \cdot \frac%7Bf%7D%7B\rho%7D |
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friction losses which are always negative along the flow direction |
Approximations
See also
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