Evaluation of the flow forces on an open centre directional control valve by means of a computational fluid dynamic analysis

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 13-14, 2006, Pages 1748-1760

  Amirante, R ^a   Del Vescovo, G ^a   Lippolis, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Flow forces; Open centre directional control valve

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PUMPS; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

FLOW FORCES; OPEN CENTRE DIRECTIONAL CONTROL VALVE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 33645450527     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. R. Amirante, G. Del Vescovo, and A. Lippolis A flow forces analysis of an open center hydraulic directional control valve sliding spool Energy Conversion and Management 47 1 2006 114 131
2. M. Batoli Theoretical and experimental analysis of flow forces on a hydraulic directional control valve Oleodinam Pneumat 3 1996 10 16 [in Italian]
3. M. Borghi, M. Milani, and R. Paoluzzi Stationary axial flow force analysis on compensated spool valves Int J Fluid Power 1 1 2000 17 25
4. Macor A, Badin D. Turbulence modelling influence on flow force analysis in hydraulic directional control valves. In: Proceedings of the 54th congresso nazionale ATI, 1999 [in Italian].
5. Macor A. Experimental analysis on a directional valve with a flat notch metering section. In: Proceedings of the 57th congresso nazionale ATI, Pisa, 2002 [in Italian].
6. Del Vescovo G, Lippolis A. Flow forces analysis on an electro piloted hydraulic directional control valve. In: Proceedings of the 3rd international congress MiniHydro, Maratea, 2001 [in Italian].
7. Del Vescovo G, Lippolis A. CFD analysis of flow forces on spool valves. In: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on computational methods in fluid power technology, Melbourne November 26-28, 2003; 2003.
8. G. Del Vescovo, and A. Lippolis Three-dimensional analysis of flow forces on directional control valves Int J Fluid Power 4 2 2003
9. Del Vescovo G, Lippolis A. Flow forces analysis on a four way valve. In: Proceedings of 2nd FPN PhD international symposium, Modena, July 3-6, 2002; 2002.
10. Fluent 6.1 Inc. 2003. Fluent Europe user's guide. vols. 1-4.
11. Fluent 6.1 Inc. 2003. Fluent tutorial guide. vols. 1 and 2.
12. Fluent Inc. 2000. Gambit user's guide.
13. Fluent Inc. 2000. Gambit Modelling guide.
14. Renn J-C, Kao T-C. Application of CFD to design a power-saving hydraulic directional two-land-four-way-valve. In: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on computational methods in fluid power technology, Melbourne November 26-28, 2003; 2003.