Straight Pipe Circular Cross Section and Nonuniform Roughness Walls IDELCHIK Feb 2018
Straight Pipe Circular Cross Section and Nonuniform Roughness Walls IDELCHIK Feb 2018
Straight Pipe Circular Cross Section and Nonuniform Roughness Walls IDELCHIK Feb 2018
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Straight Pipe
Circular Cross-Section and Nonuniform Roughness Walls
(IDELCHIK)
Model description:
This model of component calculates the major head loss (pressure drop) of a horizontal
straight pipe of circular and constant cross-section.
In addition, the flow is assumed fully developed and stabilized.
The head loss is due to the friction of the fluid on the inner walls of the piping and is
calculated with the Darcy formula. The roughness of the inner walls of the pipe is
supposed nonuniform (commercial pipe).
Model formulation:
Reynolds number:
w 0 Dh
Re
Relative roughness:
Dh
turbulent flow regime – transition region and complete turbulence region (Re Re2):
Colebrook-White equation
1
2
2.51
2 log
Re 3 .7
([1] diagram 2.4)
Transition region
Validity range:
any flow regime: laminar, critical and turbulent (Re 108)
0.05
stabilized flow
References:
[1] Handbook of Hydraulic Resistance, 3rd Edition, I.E. Idelchik (2008)