Excel VBA-based user defined functions for highly precise colebrook's pipe flow friction approximations: a comparative overview

D Brkić, Z Stajić - Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical …, 2021 - casopisi.junis.ni.ac.rs
This review paper gives Excel functions for highly precise Colebrook's pipe flow friction
approximations developed by users. All shown codes are implemented as User Defined …

Short overview of early developments of the Hardy Cross type methods for computation of flow distribution in pipe networks

D Brkić, P Praks - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hardy Cross originally proposed a method for analysis of flow in networks of conduits or
conductors in 1936. His method was the first really useful engineering method in the field of …

Accurate and efficient explicit approximations of the Colebrook flow friction equation based on the Wright ω-function

D Brkić, P Praks - Mathematics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Colebrook equation is a popular model for estimating friction loss coefficients in water
and gas pipes. The model is implicit in the unknown flow friction factor, f. To date, the …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of thermal performance factor for solar air heaters with artificially roughened channels

W Siddique, A Raheem, M Aqeel… - Archive of …, 2021 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Heat transfer augmentation has become the utmost industrial desire. Turbulence promoters
seems to be a better option for better heat transfer but at the expense of enormous pressure …

Advanced iterative procedures for solving the implicit Colebrook equation for fluid flow friction

P Praks, D Brkić - Advances in Civil Engineering, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The empirical Colebrook equation from 1939 is still accepted as an informal standard way to
calculate the friction factor of turbulent flows (4000< Re< 108) through pipes with roughness …

An efficient iterative method for looped pipe network hydraulics free of flow-corrections

D Brkić, P Praks - Fluids, 2019 - mdpi.com
The original and improved versions of the Hardy Cross iterative method with related
modifications are today widely used for the calculation of fluid flow through conduits in loop …

Symbolic regression-based genetic approximations of the Colebrook equation for flow friction

P Praks, D Brkić - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Widely used in hydraulics, the Colebrook equation for flow friction relates implicitly to the
input parameters; the Reynolds number, Re and the relative roughness of an inner pipe …

Choosing the optimal multi-point iterative method for the Colebrook flow friction equation

P Praks, D Brkić - Processes, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Colebrook equation is implicitly given in respect to the unknown flow friction factor λ; λ=
ζ (R e, ε*, λ) which cannot be expressed explicitly in exact way without simplifications and …

Introducing Excel spreadsheet calculations and numerical simulations with professional software into an undergraduate hydraulic engineering course

M Bermúdez, J Puertas, L Cea - Computer Applications in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a comprehensive set of computer tools for implementing an active
teaching–learning strategy on an undergraduate hydraulic engineering course, within the …

All the trinomial roots, their powers and logarithms from the Lambert series, Bell polynomials and Fox–Wright function: illustration for genome multiplicity in survival of …

D Belkić - Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
All the roots of the general n th degree trinomial admit certain convenient representations in
terms of the Lambert and Euler series for the asymmetric and symmetric cases of the …