The simulation demonstrates how a sudden valve closure generates a pressure wave that propagates through a pipe, showing how fluid velocity and pipe elasticity together determine the peak surge pressure via the Joukowsky equation.
Adjust the fluid velocity and pipe elasticity sliders and trigger a valve closure to watch the pressure wave travel along the pipe, reflect at the far end, and observe the resulting peak pressure reading.
Sliders for fluid velocity and pipe elasticity, plus a valve closure trigger
The Joukowsky equation is named after Nikolay Zhukovsky, who derived it in the 1890s while investigating a series of destructive pipe failures in the Moscow municipal water supply system.
The simulation demonstrates how a sudden valve closure generates a pressure wave that propagates through a pipe, showing how fluid velocity and pipe elasticity together determine the peak surge pressure via the Joukowsky equation.
The simulation demonstrates how a sudden valve closure generates a pressure wave that propagates through a pipe, showing how fluid velocity and pipe elasticity together determine the peak surge pressure via the Joukowsky equation.
Adjust the fluid velocity and pipe elasticity sliders and trigger a valve closure to watch the pressure wave travel along the pipe, reflect at the far end, and observe the resulting peak pressure reading.
The Joukowsky equation is named after Nikolay Zhukovsky, who derived it in the 1890s while investigating a series of destructive pipe failures in the Moscow municipal water supply system.