modelUseOfGeometryModel

Comparing a circular with a non-circular pipe

Extends from TRANSFORM.Icons.Example (Icon for runnable examples).

Information

In this example two pipes are used to demonstrate the use of circular (default) and non-circular pipes, where the topmost pipe is circular with a length of 100 m and an inner diameter of 10 mm and the second pipe is a circular ring pipe with inner diameter of 5 mm and an outer diameter of 15 mm.

Both pipes are connected to a pT source (water, 293.15 K, 10 bar) and a mass flow sink (0.1 kg/s inflow).

Although the hydraulic diameter of both pipes are the same, the different cross sections lead to different velocities and by this different outlet pressures (7.324 bar for the circular pipe versus 9.231 bar for the circular ring pipe).

NonCircularPipes.png

Components

TypeNameDefaultDescription
Modelica.Fluid.Systemsystem
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.Boundary_pTboundary
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.MassFlowSource_Tmassflowsink1
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.MassFlowSource_Tmassflowsink2
TRANSFORM.Fluid.Pipes.GenericPipe_MultiTransferSurfacecircular_pipe
TRANSFORM.Fluid.Pipes.GenericPipe_MultiTransferSurfaceannulus_pipe
TRANSFORM.Utilities.ErrorAnalysis.UnitTestsunitTests

Contents

NameDescription
Medium

Revisions

  • January 6, 2015 by Alexander Täschner:
    First implementation.