An Analytical Solution for Unsteady Laminar Flow in Tubes with a Tapered Wall Thickness
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Abstract
Transient fluid flows through tubes are critical in such topics as water hammer, ram pumps and pipeline dynamics. While analytical solutions exist in the literature for simple geometries such as tapered and non-tapered tube diameters, one area that is lacking is the case where the wave speed changes along the length. An example of this is a flexible pipe with a tapered wall thickness. In order to calculate the transient pressure response of such a system, this previously required a computationally expensive gridded method of characteristics (MOC) solution. This paper describes an analytical solution to the dynamic laminar flow of liquid in a tube where the wave speed varies along its length. This frequency-domain solution includes frequency-dependent friction effects. A comparison to a method of characteristics (MOC) solution is used to verify the solution. The paper also discusses some numerical issues and provides an approximate method that can be used for high-frequency calculations where limited numerical precision can cause errors. Finally, a preliminary comparison of the computational performance is presented, in which the new method is an order of magnitude faster to calculate than an MOC solution.
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