TOPAZ: a computer code for modeling heat transfer and fluid flow in arbitrary networks of pipes, flow branches, and vessels

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5437631· OSTI ID:5437631

Winters, W S

An overview of the computer code TOPAZ (Transient-One-Dimensional Pipe Flow Analyzer) is presented. TOPAZ models the flow of compressible and incompressible fluids through complex and arbitrary arrangements of pipes, valves, flow branches and vessels. Heat transfer to and from the fluid containment structures (i.e. vessel and pipe walls) can also be modeled. This document includes discussions of the fluid flow equations and containment heat conduction equations. The modeling philosophy, numerical integration technique, code architecture, and methods for generating the computational mesh are also discussed.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5437631
• Report Number(s): SAND-83-8253; ON: DE84006275
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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