Pipe Incompresable Fluid Pressure Drop Calculations: Input Data
Pipe Incompresable Fluid Pressure Drop Calculations: Input Data
Pipe Incompresable Fluid Pressure Drop Calculations: Input Data
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Output Data
Turbulent Flow
Mean Velocity, feet/sec = 8.62 Reynolds Number = 52,366 Friction Factor = .00615 Relative Roughness = .001274 Shear Rate, sec- = 1053.8 Apparent Viscosity, cp = 1.0 Pipe Pressure Drop, lbf/in = 18.8 Fittings Pressure Drop, lbf/in = 4.2 --------------------------------------------------Total Pressure Drop, lbf/in = 23.0 Total Friction Loss, ft-lbf/lbm = 53.1
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V Nre f e/D r DR DR DR h
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Input Examples Sprinkler Water Line: 13 GPM, 0.785" Diameter Tubing, 100 ft long - Newtonian Fluid TiO2 - Water Slurry: 500 GPM, 3.0" Diameter Pipe, 100 ft long - Yield Stress Fluid Fluid Yield Stress = 20 pascals, Infinite Shear Viscosity = 176 mPa-sec
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Infinite Shear Viscosity, mPa-sec Apparent Viscosity, mPa-sec Slurry Yield Stress, Pascals Shear Stress of fluid flowing with a shear rate, R = 8V/D, Average fluid velocity, ft/sec Pipe inside diameter, ft
HEOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS
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