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Compliant Cylinder

Cylindrical chamber with compliant walls

 

Description

Equations

Variables

Connections

Parameters

Description

The Compliant Cylinder component models a cylindrical volume with compliant walls and a compressible fluid that consists of a mixture of liquid and a small amount of non-dissolved gas, which is used in an approximate model of cavitation.

The fluid bulk modulus, , and atmospheric pressure, , come from a Fluid Properties record at the same or higher level in the overall model.

Equations

Variables

Name

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Pressure across component

p

Flow rate through component

q

Rest volume of cylinder

V0

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

Hydraulic port

portA

Parameters

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

 

Relative gas content = Vg/V

alpha

 

Heat ratio of gas = Cp/Cv

k

Length of cylinder

L

Inner diameter

D

Outer diameter

Do

Young's modulus of walls

Em

 

Poisson ratio of walls

nu

Expansion time constant

tau

See Also

Chambers

Hydraulics Library

 


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