Development of a Method for Modeling the Response of a Liquid filled Deformable Pipe to an Impact Load

Abstract

A comparison of methods is presented to model the effect of an impact-based pressure wave in a fluid medium on the behavior of a deformable pipe with one closed end that contains the fluid. The predicted pipe deformation and fluid pressures using Lagrangian elements, Eulerian elements, continuum particle elements, and acoustic elements are evaluated, and the benefits and limitations of the use of each element type to model this system are discussed. Based on these comparisons, a method using acoustic elements and an acoustic medium material model to represent the nonflowing fluid in this system is presented, which shows good correlation in predicted transient fluid pressure and pipe wall deformation to experimental measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1060527

Entities

People

  • Catherine S. Florio

Organizations

  • Picatinny Arsenal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Bulk Modulus
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Elastic Materials
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Impact Loads
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)