Waterhammer Analysis
 

You can simulate the waterhammer in a pipeline by means of the following programs here below:

 

1. Waterhammer in pipelines with a impulsion pump and a check valve

2. Waterhammer in pipelines supplied by gravity under the closure of a gate downstream

 

The programs were made by resolving the caracteristics of the transient flow (Characteristics Method).
 
 

Note: The calculation with the program could consume much memory in some cases. I have noticed "Flash MX " is a bit unstable with long calculations. I have tested this programm up to a simulation time T=3600 without problems in a XP Laptop with a Pentium M Centrino processor of 1.6GHz, 591MHz and 512 MB RAM but i think you can get anyway problems with the simulation, therefore i recommend not to use inmediatly high values of N or T in the program. You could begin by simulating at low values of N and T and advance step by step with new values of N and T and stop when the computer memory is not sufficient.

If you want the programs as an exe file you can send me an e-mail! (please do not use emails of google)

 

 

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