Analysis of the Hydraulic Transient in a Pipe Equipped with an Air-chamber

Abstract

In this paper are shown (1) a new treatment of the equations of motion and continuity with a little changeable control surface, and these fundamental equations are quasi-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations, (2) graphical method based on the characteristics of above-mentioned equations, (3) the analysis of the waterhammer with an air-chamber taking hydraulic losses of the outlet into consideration. As an example, waterhammer pressures are computed for two apparatuses equipped with and without an air-chamber.