Comparing Unsteady Modeling Approaches of Surges Caused by Sudden Air Pocket Compression
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Abstract
The entrapment and compression of air in closed conduits is a relevant problem in pipeline systems that experience unsteady flow regimes.Severe surging resulting from large air compressibility leads to failures, structural damage and other operational issues.Various studies have been performed on the topic, most of which simplified the flow equations by adopting a lumped inertia approach to simulate the unsteady water flow, an implementation of the ideal gas law, momentum equation and air-water continuity equations.The modeling benefits of a discretized approach, such as the method of characteristics (MOC), to simulate the water phase have not been sufficiently investigated.To address this knowledge gap, this paper compares an MOC and a lumped inertia model in adverse pipe slope conditions involving sudden air pocket compression caused by the closure (partial or total) of a downstream knife gate valve.In laboratory experiments air pressures and flow rates were measured during various sudden air compression events, serving to assess the accuracy of each modeling approach.Results of the comparison indicate that the two hydraulic models have comparable accuracy for partial valve closure cases.For total valve closures, the models are comparable for smaller surge events but significantly diverge when maximum H/D values exceed 60 to 80.This feature did not depend on the pipe L/D ratio for the proposed experiments, but the magnitude of error was affected by this ratio, specifically when the air pocket volume was less than unity.Additional experiments are needed to better assess the effects of the pipeline L/D ratio and other geometrical parameters, such as slope, on peak surge predictions.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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