Supply a mass flow rate that is a function of the pressure drop across the valve. More...
#include <flowControllers.h>
Inheritance diagram for Valve:
Collaboration diagram for Valve:
Public Member Functions | |
| virtual bool | ready () |
| virtual void | updateMassFlowRate (doublereal time) |
| Compute the currrent mass flow rate, based on the pressure difference. More... | |
 Public Member Functions inherited from FlowDevice | |
| int | type () |
| Return an integer indicating the type of flow device. More... | |
| doublereal | massFlowRate (double time=-999.0) |
| doublereal | outletSpeciesMassFlowRate (size_t k) |
| doublereal | enthalpy_mass () |
| specific enthalpy More... | |
| bool | install (ReactorBase &in, ReactorBase &out) |
| Install a flow device between two reactors. More... | |
| ReactorBase & | in () const |
| Return a reference to the upstream reactor. More... | |
| const ReactorBase & | out () const |
| Return a const reference to the downstream reactor. More... | |
| virtual void | setParameters (int n, doublereal *coeffs) |
| set parameters More... | |
| void | setFunction (Cantera::Func1 *f) |
| Set a function of a single variable that is used in determining the mass flow rate through the device. More... | |
| void | setMassFlowRate (doublereal mdot) |
| Set the fixed mass flow rate (kg/s) through the flow device. More... | |
Additional Inherited Members | |
| Protected Attributes inherited from FlowDevice | |
| doublereal | m_mdot |
| Cantera::Func1 * | m_func |
| vector_fp | m_coeffs |
| int | m_type |
Detailed Description
Supply a mass flow rate that is a function of the pressure drop across the valve.
The default behavior is a linearly proportional to the pressure difference. Note that real valves do not have this behavior, so this class does not model real, physical valves.
Definition at line 85 of file flowControllers.h.
Member Function Documentation
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Compute the currrent mass flow rate, based on the pressure difference.
Reimplemented from FlowDevice.
Definition at line 97 of file flowControllers.h.
References Func1::eval(), FlowDevice::in(), FlowDevice::out(), and ReactorBase::pressure().
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
