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Empirical equation, which relates pressure loss

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  along pipeline (also called head loss), due to fluid friction with pipelines walls along the pipe trajectory to the average cross-sectional velocity 
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of the fluid flow:

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\frac{dp}{dl} =  -  f \cdot \frac{  \rho \, u^2 \, }{2 d}

where

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Darcy friction factor

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fluid density

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pipe diameter


See also

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Physics / Fluid Dynamics / Pipe Flow Dynamics / Fluid friction with pipelines walls

Darcy friction factor ]

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