Aguirre-Mendoza, Andrés M.; Oyuela, Sebastián; Espinoza-Román, Héctor G.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Paternina-Verona, Duban A.(MDPI AG, 2021-11)
[EN] 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, ...
Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Héctor Espinoza-Román; Arrieta-Pastrana, Alfonso; Elias Tasca; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Ramos, Helena M.(Taylor & Francis, 2024-05)
[EN] Entrapped air pockets in water pipelines play a significant role in influencing transient over-pressures during filling procedures. Several research is focused on highlighting the attenuation of pressure peaks in pipes ...
Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Espinoza-Román, Héctor G.; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2023-07)
[EN] In hydraulic engineering, some researchers have developed different mathematical and numerical tools for a better understanding of the physical interaction between water flow in pipes with trapped air during emptying ...
Aguirre-Mendoza, Andrés M.; Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Oyuela, Sebastián; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Besharat, Mohsen; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luís; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2022-03)
[EN] 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 ...
[EN] 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 ...
Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar Enrique; Espinoza-Román, Héctor G.; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2023-03)
[EN] 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 ...
Paternina-Verona, Duban A.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Espinoza-Román, Héctor G.; Besharat, Mohsen; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2022-11)
[EN] 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 ...