Algebraic Water Hammer: Global Formulation for Simulating Transient Pipe Network Hydraulics

Algebraic water hammer (AWH) represents a simplified and more compact form of the classical method of characteristics (MOC) for solving the 1-D equations of unsteady-compressible pressurized flow. Unlike the MOC, AWH focuses on the transmission and reflection of waves at nodal boundaries. The characteristic expressions are extended over multiple pipe reaches (with fewer variables), so they are conveniently summarized in a system equation using …