.Buildings.Fluid.Movers.BaseClasses.Euler.power

Information

This function outputs power values as well as its derivative versus volumetric flow rate in the following steps:

• It first interpolates the input pressure curve to find a new pressure curve of 11 points on 10% increments of max flow rate. It assumes that the last point on the input pressure curve corresponds to Δp = 0, which is ensured when this function is called by Buildings.Fluid.Movers.BaseClasses.FlowMachineInterface.
• It then computes power using efficiency evaluated with the Euler number from 10% to 90% of max flow rate on 10% increments.
• With the incomplete power curve it computes the spline derivatives with respect to flow rate at the same points.
• Once the derivatives are available, the power values at the two boundary points are found through linear extrapolation.

These steps are designed to ensure that power and efficiency computation with the Euler number is handled correctly near zero flow or zero pressure, where

Ẇ_flo = 0,
η = 0,
P > 0

in the equation

η = Ẇ_flo ⁄ P.

Interface

function power
  extends Modelica.Icons.Function;
  input Buildings.Fluid.Movers.BaseClasses.Euler.peak peak "Peak operation point";
  input Buildings.Fluid.Movers.BaseClasses.Characteristics.flowParametersInternal pressure "Pressure curve with both max flow rate and max pressure";
  output Buildings.Fluid.Movers.BaseClasses.Euler.powerWithDerivative power(V_flow = zeros(11), P = zeros(11), d = zeros(11)) "Power and its derivative vs. flow rate";
end power;

Revisions

• December 13, 2022, by Hongxiang Fu:
  First implementation. This is for #2668.