Transient wave-blockage interaction and extended blockage detection in elastic water pipelines

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 2-16

  Duan, H F ^a   Lee, P J ^b   Ghidaoui, M S ^c   Tuck, J ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Extended blockage; Frequency shift; Transients; Water pipelines; Wave perturbation analysis; Wave blockage interaction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; EXTENDED BLOCKAGE; FREQUENCY SHIFT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; RESONANT FREQUENCY SHIFT; WAVE-BLOCKAGE INTERACTION;

FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; TRANSIENTS; WATER PIPELINES;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 84897648380     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: 10958622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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