Bill Blarney
Structural
- May 18, 2019
- 3
Have 100 feet liquid level vertical vessel discharging water through large diameter orifice by gravity.
The draining orifice jet impinges on an inclined deflector 12 feet below the 60-inch discharge valve.
Used Bernoulli's equation for the initial fully-open valve flow:
Q(0) = 0.5 [√ (2 · (32.2) ·100)] π ·2.5 2 = 0.5 · (80.2) · (19.6) = 788 ft3/sec at 40fps
√ (1 – 2.5 4 / 14.3 4) (0.9997)
Then increased velocity for the freefall drop and decreased the diameter for conservation of momentum,
and get ~ 51 fps impacting a 53-inch diameter circle, onto a steel-shielded 45º concrete impact surface.
The reaction will equal the force of impact vertically, and equally horizontally, for 1.41 times impact.
That should be everything I need, but I'm not finding the equation! I know that's stupid but I lent my
Chung, Comp Fluid Dynamics to another engineer and he departed with it. I used to know this by heart.
Anyone have an online link, or care to post the formula(s)? If I get it wrong, things will go break.
The draining orifice jet impinges on an inclined deflector 12 feet below the 60-inch discharge valve.
Used Bernoulli's equation for the initial fully-open valve flow:
Q(0) = 0.5 [√ (2 · (32.2) ·100)] π ·2.5 2 = 0.5 · (80.2) · (19.6) = 788 ft3/sec at 40fps
√ (1 – 2.5 4 / 14.3 4) (0.9997)
Then increased velocity for the freefall drop and decreased the diameter for conservation of momentum,
and get ~ 51 fps impacting a 53-inch diameter circle, onto a steel-shielded 45º concrete impact surface.
The reaction will equal the force of impact vertically, and equally horizontally, for 1.41 times impact.
That should be everything I need, but I'm not finding the equation! I know that's stupid but I lent my
Chung, Comp Fluid Dynamics to another engineer and he departed with it. I used to know this by heart.
Anyone have an online link, or care to post the formula(s)? If I get it wrong, things will go break.