... 27 07 2022 12 12 2022 design plastic material Ramos formulation viscoelasticity waterhammer Cavitation piping systems, consequent upon abrupt changes in the flow conditions, poses significant challenges to designing engineers. In fact, this phenomenon may be encountered...

...-/low-density polyethylene MOC = method of characteristics UF = unsteady friction VE = visco-elasticity 1D-EWHE = one-dimensional extended waterhammer equations Subscripts i = section index of the piping system ns = number of sections R = rated...

... comparison between the compound- and dual-technique-based branching strategy with particular focus on the tradeoff between the two last parameters. The plastic material types demonstrated in this study included the high- or low-density polyethylene. The application addressed a waterhammer maneuver initiated...