Flange

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The flange is used to connect two or more pipe ends. It will not matter if these are ends of a normal pipe or of a pipe-like element. You connect a pipe to a flange by simply positioning the end inside the flange. You do not need to be very precise since on start of simulation not connected ends are detected by the system and after confirmation they are connected to the nearest flange.

At the internal calculation of the flows through a flange this one is seen as an expansion container that can buffer a certain volume. The value that is marked quite vague as ‘factor’ on the edit mask determines how ‘hard’ this expansion container is. Normally you can let this value be on ‘1’. For some use (especially if it is worked with high pressures) the value has to be raised though to reach a fast reacting to the operating of valves and pumps. But if you make it too big the simulation becomes unstable, all flows and pressures will show a chaotic behaviour then. Naturally we would like to calculate an appropriate value for this factor out of the data of the pipes, pumps and valves that are connected to the flange but we did not manage this yet and that is why you have to adjust this value yourself, should this occasion arise.

See also:

Fluids

Container

Static elements of simulation

Tabsheet: Fluids