Impact of physical properties of biodiesel on the injection process in a common-rail direct injection system

F Boudy, P Seers - Energy Conversion and Management, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper presents the influence of biodiesel fuel properties on the injection mass flow rate
of a diesel common-rail injection system. Simulations are first performed with ISO 4113 …

Water-hammer pressure waves interaction at cross-section changes in series in viscoelastic pipes

S Meniconi, B Brunone, M Ferrante - Journal of fluids and structures, 2012 - Elsevier
In view of scarcity of both experimental data and numerical models concerning transient
behavior of cross-section area changes in pressurized liquid flow, the paper presents …

Wall shear stress in transient turbulent pipe flow by local velocity measurement

B Brunone, A Berni - Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2010 - ascelibrary.org
The modeling of unsteady wall shear stress plays a crucial role in the analysis of fast
transients in pressurized pipe systems, since it allows to evaluate transient energy …

Local and integral energy-based evaluation for the unsteady friction relevance in transient pipe flows

HF Duan, S Meniconi, PJ Lee, B Brunone… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
Unsteady friction and its modeling have been widely studied in transient pipe flows for its
influences and modification effect on pressure waves. Such a feature is of great importance …

In-line pipe device checking by short-period analysis of transient tests

S Meniconi, B Brunone, M Ferrante - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
In this paper, the results of laboratory transient tests concerning the interaction between a
pressure wave and an in-line device are discussed. Transients are generated by means of a …

Further developments in rapidly decelerating turbulent pipe flow modeling

S Meniconi, HF Duan, B Brunone… - Journal of hydraulic …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
In the last two decades, energy dissipation in unsteady-state pressurized pipe flow has been
examined by various authors, where the instantaneous wall shear stress is split into a quasi …

Two-dimensional features of viscoelastic models of pipe transients

G Pezzinga, B Brunone, D Cannizzaro… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
Transients in pressurized polymeric pipes are analyzed by means of a two-dimensional (2D)
Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic model, calibrated by means of a microgenetic algorithm on the …

CFD and 1D approaches for the unsteady friction analysis of low Reynolds number turbulent flows

NMC Martins, B Brunone, S Meniconi… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
The aim of this paper is to investigate the complex nature of the transient energy dissipation
by using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model with a high spatial and temporal …

Energy dissipation and pressure decay during transients in viscoelastic pipes with an in-line valve

S Meniconi, B Brunone, M Ferrante… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effect of a partially closed in-line valve, viscoelasticity, and unsteady friction
on the transient behavior of a pressurized pipe is examined. Such an analysis is executed …

Experimental and numerical investigations of water hammer analysis in pipeline with two different materials and their combined configuration

RK Garg, A Kumar - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Pi**, 2020 - Elsevier
Water conductor system in hydro power plants experience water hammer or hydraulic
transient events regularly and may cause damage of civil and mechanical components …