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### Pipe, Sudden Enlargement

Figure 78: Sudden Enlargement

A sudden enlargement (Figure 78) is characterized by head losses of the form:

| (30)

where is a head loss coefficient depending on the ratio , is the mass flow, g is the gravity acceleration and is the liquid density. and are the smaller and larger cross section, respectively. Notice that this formula is only valid for . For a reverse mass flow, the formulas for a pipe contraction have to be taken. Values for can be found in file ``liquidpipe.f''.

The following constants have to be specified on the line beneath the *FLUID SECTION, TYPE=PIPE ENLARGEMENT card:

The gravity acceleration must be specified by a gravity type *DLOAD card defined for the elements at stake. The material characteristic can be defined by a *DENSITY card.

Example files: centheat1, pipe.

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