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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Update to inputs for the pressure drop calculation:
Friction factor calculation
Rules for mass flowrate
Describe the solution you'd like
Current friction factor calculation is to be updated to the "Swamee-Jain" explicit approximation:
f= 0.25/([log((ε/3.7D)+(5.74/(Re^0.7)))]^2)
f= friction factor
D= Diameter (m)
Re= Reynolds number
ε= roughness (m) (this will be provided as part of a model definition, but a value of 4.50E-05 can be used as a placeholder for a steel pipe)
Note on accuracy: The approximation from this equation can vary by 2.8% within its applicable range:
Reynolds number between 5000 and 3E+8
Relative Roughness (ε/D) between 1E-6 and 0.01
Mass flowrate will remain conserved throughout the model, initially set by user input.
Mass flowrate can be split between multiple lines as in the example of the "splitter" object, where the flowrate input to the object is equal to the sum of the output flowrates from the object.
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Update to inputs for the pressure drop calculation:
Describe the solution you'd like
f= 0.25/([log((ε/3.7D)+(5.74/(Re^0.7)))]^2)
f= friction factor
D= Diameter (m)
Re= Reynolds number
ε= roughness (m) (this will be provided as part of a model definition, but a value of 4.50E-05 can be used as a placeholder for a steel pipe)
Note on accuracy: The approximation from this equation can vary by 2.8% within its applicable range:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: