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Pipeline Flow Pressure Model is addressing this problem with account of the varying pipeline trajectory, gravity effects and fluid friction with pipeline walls.
Inputs & Outputs
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Pipeline trajectory
| along-pipe distribution of stabilised pressure
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| along-pipe distribution of stabilised flow rate
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along-pipe distribution of stabilised average flow velocity
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inflow pressure
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Inner pipe wall roughness
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flow temperature distribution
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Assumptions
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Stationary fluid flow | ||||
Homogenous fluid flow | ||||
Isothermal or Quasi-isothermal conditions | ||||
Constant cross-section pipe area
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