Three ways to compute multiport inertance

Authors

  • G. D. McBain Memjet
  • S. G. Mallinson
  • B. R. Brown
  • Tom Gustafsson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21914/anziamj.v60i0.14058

Keywords:

impulsively generated flow, Kron reduction, multiport vessels, hydraulic inertanc

Abstract

The immediate impulse-response of a confined incompressible fluid is characterized by inertance. For a vessel with one inlet and outlet, this is a single quantity; for multiple ports the generalization is a singular reciprocal inertance matrix which acts on the port-impulses to give the corresponding inflows. The reciprocal inertance coefficients are defined by the boundary fluxes of potential flows. Green's identity converts these coefficients to domain integrals of kinetic energy. For a system discretized with finite elements, a third method is proposed for computing reciprocal inertance coefficients which requires only the stiffness matrix and the solution vectors and no numerical differentiation. References

Author Biography

G. D. McBain, Memjet

Modelling & Simulation Mechanical Engineer

Published

2019-08-26

Issue

Section

Proceedings Computational Techniques and Applications Conference