How to calculate flow & pressure through branched pipes from header line with known flow & pressure?illustrate
Sounds like a continuity problem.
Do you need to take losses into account or is it strictly an application of Bernoulli’s Equations?
Is this for fluids or gasses?
Niel Leon
Community Developer – Engineering.com
Dear Leon,
Suppose we are considering practical approach for media water.
I have 6 inch water pipe with known flow and pressure, running horizontaly at 10 meter height. Now suppose, I took two tappings from this pipe. One is of 2 inch dia and other is 3 inch dia. Tappings are 10 meter apart and desending downward from this 6″ horizontal pipe. open end of 2″ and 3″ tappings are fixed with isolation ball valves. how I can calculate the Flow and pressure at these two tappings before isolation valves. what flow and pressure changes in 3″ tapping if i opened 2″ tapping valve.
Please illustrate step by step, so that i can apply the same logic in bigger pipe network.
This is a application of Bernoulli’s Principle [1] and [2] to an incompressible fluid and the continuity principle [2].
Niel Leon
Community Developer – Engineering.com
