It is often assumed that total head losses in a sand filter are solely due to the filtration media and that there are analytical solutions, such as the Ergun equation, to compute them …
J Wang, R Chen - Irrigation Science, 2020 - Springer
A good hydraulic design of drip irrigation systems requires an accurate evaluation of the friction head loss that occurs in pipes as well as the local head loss induced by the presence …
F Carrión, JM Tarjuelo, D Hernández, MA Moreno - Irrigation Science, 2013 - Springer
Matlab software named PRESUD (Pressurized Subunit Design) was developed to identify the optimum microirrigation subunit design using the annual water application cost per unit …
J Wang, T Yang, T Wei, R Chen, S Yuan - Biosystems Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The hydraulic performance of thin-wall lay-flat polyethylene pipes with non-coaxial emitters were evaluated in this study. Two experiments were performed to measure the dimensional …
J Wang, R Chen, T Yang, T Wei, X Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
A finite element model was developed for the hydraulic design of subsurface drip irrigation subunits. The governing differential equation for steady-state water flow in a multi-outlet …
P Martí, J Shiri, A Román, JV Turégano, Á Royuela - Irrigation Science, 2023 - Springer
The presence of emitters along the lateral, as well as of connectors along the manifold, causes additional local head losses other than friction losses. An accurate estimation of …
H Yurdem, V Demir, A Mancuhan - Biosystems Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Simplified empirical model developed to predict the optimum lateral lengths.•Model accounts for the 98.3% of the variation in the optimum lengths.•Model is valid …
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques have become an important tool for investigating and predicting flow behavior in many industrial and engineering processes. In …