Thanks MintJulep, TBP & others....
All this information helped me understand...thank you. This is my first time on these forums and you guyz are top notch. I'm gonna stick around these forums whenever possible to assist others as well...it seems I can learn alot hanging around here. :)...
Thanks TBP for your responses....I'll try to clarify some more...you really got me thinking. :)
I'm not so concerned as to the pressure i'm supplying to the component, as long as i'm flowing a certain N2/air rate, but what does that pressure measurement at the port mean. I say this because...
I appreciate all of your comments....this really helps me out.
Let me give you an example...say I am feeding Nitrogen(N2) into a pipe and say several inches downstream I have a pressure port that leads into a pressure gauge...then a couple inches downstream from the pressure port I have the...
Can someone help me define the difference between the terms "Back Pressure" and "Pressure Drop". I believe they are measured differently and are not the same. Isn't Back Pressure taken as a measurement upstream of flow and measures the shock wave from resistance downstream...