Liquid pipeline leak detection system: Model development and numerical simulation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-67

  Abhulimen, Kingsley E ^a   Susu, Alfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Leak detection system; Liquid pipelines; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LEAK DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; PIPE FLOW; PIPELINES; STABILITY;

LIAPUNOV STABILITY; PRESSURE DEVIATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

LEAK DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; PIPELINE;

EID: 0344704091     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-8947(03)00098-6     Document Type: Article

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