Transient flow simulation of municipal gas pipelines and networks using semi implicit finite volume method

Abstract

An efficient transient flow simulation for gas pipelines and networks is performed. The proposed transient flow simulation is based on the transfer function models and finite volume method. The equivalent transfer functions of the nonlinear governing equations are derived for different boundary condition types. To verify the accuracy of the proposed simulation, the results obtained are compared with those of the experiments. The effect of the flow inertia is considered in this simulation with discretisation by TVD scheme. The accuracy of the proposed method is discussed for two test cases. It is shown that the proposed simulation has a sufficient accuracy.