• 2D CFD Modeling of Rapid Water Filling with Air Valves Using OpenFOAM 

      Aguirre-Mendoza, Andres M.; Oyuela, Sebastián; Espinoza Román, Héctor Gabriel; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Fuertes Miquel, Vicente S.; Paternina-Verona, Duban A. (Cartagena de Indias, 2021-11-04)
      The rapid filling process in pressurized pipelines has been extensively studied using mathematical models. On the other hand, the application of computational fluid dynamics models has emerged during the last decade, which ...
    • Effects of orifice sizes for uncontrolled filling processes in water pipelines 

      Aguirre-Mendoza, Andres M.; Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Oyuela, Sebastian; Coronado Hernández, Óscar Enrique; Besharat M.; Fuertes Miquel, Vicente S.; Iglesias-Rey P.L.; Ramos, Helena M. (Cartagena de Indias, 2022-03-12)
      The sizing of air valves during the air expulsion phase in rapid filling processes is crucial for design purposes. Mathematical models have been developed to simulate the behaviour of air valves during filling processes ...
    • Numerical modelling for analysing drainage in irregular profile pipes using OpenFOAM 

      Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S. (Cartagena de Indias, 2022)
      Different methods of two-dimensional and three-dimensional numerical resolution models have been used to predict the air–water interaction in pipe systems in the early twenty-first century, where reliable and adequate ...
    • Rapid Filling Analysis with an Entrapped Air Pocket in Water Pipelines Using a 3D CFD Model 

      Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E; Espinoza-Román, Héctor G; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S; Ramos, Helena M (Cartagena de Indias, 2023-02-21)
      A filling operation generates continuous changes over the shape of an air–water interface, which can be captured using a 3D CFD model. This research analyses the influence of different hydro-pneumatic tank pressures and ...
    • Three-dimensional analysis of air-admission orifices in pipelines during hydraulic drainage events 

      Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Espinoza-Román, Héctor G.; Besharat, Mohsen; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S; Ramos, Helena M (Cartagena de Indias, 2022-11-07)
      Air valves operate as protection devices in pipelines during drainage processes in order to mitigate vacuum pressures and control the transient flows. Currently, different authors have proposed one-dimensional models to ...

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