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💧 Water Hammer in a Pipeline (2D pipe section)

2D pipe section of water hammer: a valve closes at the end of a pipeline and pressure waves run between valve and reservoir. Same method-of-characteristics solver as the 3D page, with Joukowsky and wave-period checks.

Engineering & Materials2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🤖 ChatGPT⇄ 3D version
Water Hammer in a Pipeline (2D pipe section) ↗ Open standalone
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2D pipe section of water hammer: a valve closes at the end of a pipeline and pressure waves run between valve and reservoir. Same method-of-characteristics solver as the 3D page, with Joukowsky and wave-period checks.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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