Simultaneous Optimal Estimation of Roughness and Minor Loss Coefficients in a Pipeline

This paper presents a proposal to estimate simultaneously, through nonlinear optimization, the roughness and head loss coefficients in a non-straight pipeline. With the proposed technique, the calculation of friction is optimized by minimizing the fitting error in the Colebrook–White equation for an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Santos-Ruiz, Ildeberto, López-Estrada, Francisco-Ronay, Puig, Vicenç, Valencia-Palomo, Guillermo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/219510
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/219510
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nonlinear optimization
Turbulent flow
Friction factor
Pipe roughness
Minor losses
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Sumario:This paper presents a proposal to estimate simultaneously, through nonlinear optimization, the roughness and head loss coefficients in a non-straight pipeline. With the proposed technique, the calculation of friction is optimized by minimizing the fitting error in the Colebrook–White equation for an operating interval of the pipeline from the flow and pressure measurements at the pipe ends. The proposed method has been implemented in MATLAB and validated in a serpentine-shaped experimental pipeline by contrasting the theoretical friction for the estimated coefficients obtained from the Darcy–Weisbach equation for a set of steady-state measurements.