Motivation
One of the key challenges in Pipe Flow Dynamics is to predict the pressure distribution along the pipe during the stationary 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
Equations
| Pressure profile | Pressure gradient profile |
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| p(l) = p_s + \rho_s \, g \, \Delta z(l) - \frac{\rho_s \, q_s^2 }{2 A^2 d} \, f_s \, l |
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| \frac{dp}{dl} = \rho_s \, g \cos \theta(l) - \frac{\rho_s \, q_s^2 }{2 A^2 d} \, f_s |
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| Mass Flowrate | Mass Flux |
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| \dot m = \rho_s \cdot A \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2 \, d}{f_s \, l }} \cdot \sqrt{g \, \Delta z(l) + (p_s - p)/ \rho_s}
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| anchor | MassFlux |
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| j_m = \rho_s \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2 \, d}{f_s \, l }} \cdot \sqrt{g \, \Delta z(l) + (p_s - p)/ \rho_s}
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Volumetric Flowrate | Fluid velocity |
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| q_s = A \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2 \, d }{ f_s \, l }} \cdot \sqrt{ g \, \Delta z(l) + (p_s - p)/ \rho_s }
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| u_s = \sqrt{\frac{2 \, d }{ f_s \, l }} \cdot \sqrt{ g \, \Delta z(l) + (p_s - p)/ \rho_s }
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where
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| body | \Delta z(l) = z(l)-z(0) |
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| elevation drop along pipe trajectory |
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| body | --uriencoded--f_s = f(%7B\rm Re%7D_s, \, \epsilon) |
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| Darcy friction factor at intake point |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle %7B\rm Re%7D_s = \frac%7Bu(l) \cdot d%7D%7B\nu(l)%7D = \frac%7B4 \rho_s q_s%7D%7B\pi d%7D \frac%7B1%7D%7B\mu_s%7D |
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| Reynolds number at intake point |
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| body | --uriencoded--\displaystyle d = \sqrt%7B \frac%7B4 A%7D%7B\pi%7D%7D |
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| characteristic linear dimension of the pipe (or exactly a pipe diameter in case of a circular pipe) |
The first term in the right side of
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defines the hydrostatic column of static fluid while the last term defines the friction losses under fluid movement:
In most practical applications in water producing or water injecting wells, water can be considered as incompressible and friction factor can be assumed constant
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| body | f(l) = f_s = \rm const |
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along-hole ( see
Darcy friction factor in water producing/injecting wells ).
References
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