Valve Class Reference

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 86 of file flowControllers.h.

Member Function Documentation

virtual void updateMassFlowRate ( doublereal  time )

inlinevirtual

Compute the currrent mass flow rate, based on the pressure difference.

Reimplemented from FlowDevice.

Definition at line 98 of file flowControllers.h.

References Func1::eval(), FlowDevice::in(), FlowDevice::out(), and ReactorBase::pressure().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• flowControllers.h