Summary of Verification Models

All published compressible flow calculations of which AFT is aware are for single pipes. Because of the simplicity of the single pipe verification models, no views of the models are included in this documentation.  Comparison of AFT Arrow predictions to the published calculation results is included herein for twenty-one cases from 8 sources. Below is a summary of the cases.

Case Fluid Reference Sonic
Case 1 Air Anderson No
Case 2 Methane Saad Yes
Case 3 Steam Crane No
Case 4 Air Crane No
Case 5 Natural Gas Crane No
Case 6 Steam Crane Yes
Case 7 Air Crane No
Case 8 Air Fox and McDonald Yes
Case 9 Unspecified (γ = 1.4) Lindeburg No
Case 10 Methane Lindeburg No
Case 11 Air Saad No
Case 12 Air Saad Yes
Case 13 Natural Gas Saad Yes/No
Case 14 Air Tilton Yes
Case 15 Air Janna No
Case 16 Air Nayyar Yes
Case 17 Air Nayyar Yes
Case 18 Air Nayyar Yes
Case 19 Air Nayyar Yes
Case 20 Air Nayyar Yes
Case 21 Air Nayyar No