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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Pressure, Flow Rate and Head Loss Analysis on Multiple Parallel Flow Systems by Computational Approach
Submission Author:
João Lucas Lobato Soares , PA , Brazil
Co-Authors:
João Lucas Lobato Soares, George Stephane Queiroz de Oliveira, Marcelo Lucas Souza Silva, Samuel Silva, Gianfranco Stieven
Presenter: João Lucas Lobato Soares
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-1537
Abstract
The analysis of multiple parallel flow in engineering has the objective of enabling a satisfactory distribution of fluid in a given environment, where is possible to fight fire in residential and laboratory buildings using water supply systems, for example. Therefore, is indubitable the relevance of the evaluation of flow and pressure resulting in a circular section pipes branched of a main duct, also considering the study of head loss and turbulence by the Reynolds number. However, the calculations applied by the conjugate equations in fluid mechanics tend to become unfeasible when considering a significant number of branches. Furthermore, systems found in the literature only estimate flows with a low and constant number of pipes. Based on the exposed, this paper proposes to generate an iterative code that reproduces the behavior of the displacement of a fluid, considering located head loss in multiple channels and, thus, showing the variation of flow rate and pressure distributed in a general system of infinite pipes coupled into a main connection.
Keywords
Algorithm, MATLAB, parallel flow, multiple branches
