pressure drop/flowrate calculation in hydraulic loop

[Michaël Baudin]

David PICARD <d.picard at ...> writes:

> 
> You can check out this MS XL spreadsheet, originally written for aerosol 
> science, but that includes some formulae in fluid mechanics :
> http://www.google.fr/url?
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Hi,

The 1 dimensional partial differential equations which can model conservation 
laws in pipes can be solved by finite volumes methods, for example. I collected 
the existing finite volumes tools for Scilab on the wiki:

http://wiki.scilab.org/Finite%20Volumes%20in%20Scilab

The PDE block in XCos may interest you. But, overall, there is no general-
purpose industrial grade tool currently in Scilab, neither for 1D, 2D or 3D 
fluid flows. This is why some of us suggested the following GSOC project :

http://wiki.scilab.org/Contributor%20-%20PDE

But there were no student who applied on it. 

If you are interested on this topic and want to lead a project, please contact 
us.

Best regards,

Michaël Baudin