The influence of parameters pertaining to the confinant structure on water hammer had been less studied than those relative to the fluid. One of them is the inner pipe-diameter, a basic structural-parameter that makes...The influence of parameters pertaining to the confinant structure on water hammer had been less studied than those relative to the fluid. One of them is the inner pipe-diameter, a basic structural-parameter that makes its influence in essential hydraulic topics such as head loss, in pipelines. In this paper, the objective is to analyze the inner-diameter influence on water hammer phenomenon. An analytical algorithm for solving the unsteady-one-dimensional water hammer model had been applied. It had allowed estimating the instantaneous head at any point of a single pipeline. The model was solved by mean of the Laplace＇s Transformed application and the anti-transforming procedure into the complex field. To determinate the influence of internal-diameter conduit on the pressure oscillation, four distinct inside-diameter values were introduced into the solution, successively. The first overpressure-peak at each case was tabulated along with the corresponding inner^liameter and a mathematical relation had been founded. The obtained results show a close dependence between both, over-pressure peaks and internal-pipe diameter. It was founded that this dependence is given in terms of a non-linear relation between them. It was further founded that the wave frequency is sensitive to the variation of the pipe-diameter.展开更多
文摘The influence of parameters pertaining to the confinant structure on water hammer had been less studied than those relative to the fluid. One of them is the inner pipe-diameter, a basic structural-parameter that makes its influence in essential hydraulic topics such as head loss, in pipelines. In this paper, the objective is to analyze the inner-diameter influence on water hammer phenomenon. An analytical algorithm for solving the unsteady-one-dimensional water hammer model had been applied. It had allowed estimating the instantaneous head at any point of a single pipeline. The model was solved by mean of the Laplace＇s Transformed application and the anti-transforming procedure into the complex field. To determinate the influence of internal-diameter conduit on the pressure oscillation, four distinct inside-diameter values were introduced into the solution, successively. The first overpressure-peak at each case was tabulated along with the corresponding inner^liameter and a mathematical relation had been founded. The obtained results show a close dependence between both, over-pressure peaks and internal-pipe diameter. It was founded that this dependence is given in terms of a non-linear relation between them. It was further founded that the wave frequency is sensitive to the variation of the pipe-diameter.
