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Relief Valve

Relief valve with opening area linearly dependent on pressure difference

Description

The Relief Valve component models a hydraulic relief valve as a sharp-edge orifice with the orifice area dependent on the pressure across the valve.

The area varies linearly from ${A}_{\mathrm{closed}}$ to ${A}_{\mathrm{open}}$ as the pressure varies from ${p}_{\mathrm{closed}}$ to ${p}_{\mathrm{open}}$, and remains at the endpoints for pressures outside this range.

Based on the orifice area, the pressure vs flow rate relationships are derived by the formulation used in the Orifice component.

 Formulation Approaches Two approaches were taken for formulation of the flow equation inside the device. When the boolean parameter $\mathrm{Use constant Cd}$ is true, a constant coefficient of discharge (${C}_{d}$) is used, otherwise a variable coefficient of discharge with maximum value (${C}_{d\left(\mathrm{max}\right)}$) and a critical flow number (${\mathrm{Crit}}_{\mathrm{no}}$) are used.
 Optional Volumes The boolean parameters Use volume A and Use volume B, when true, add optional volumes ${V}_{A}$  and ${V}_{B}$ to ports A and B, respectively. See Port Volumes for details. If two orifices or valves are connected, enabling a volume at the common port reduces the stiffness of the system and improves the solvability.
 Equations $p={p}_{A}-{p}_{B}$ $\mathbf{Orifice Fluid Equations}$ $\left\{\begin{array}{cc}p=\frac{\mathrm{\pi }}{4}\frac{\mathrm{\rho }\mathrm{\nu }q}{{C}_{d}^{2}{A}_{\mathrm{cs}}\sqrt{\mathrm{\pi }{A}_{\mathrm{cs}}}}{\left(\frac{16{q}^{4}}{{\mathrm{\pi }}^{2}{A}_{\mathrm{cs}}^{2}{\mathrm{\nu }}^{4}}+{\mathrm{\Re }}_{\mathrm{Cr}}^{4}\right)}^{\frac{1}{4}}& \mathrm{Use constant Cd}=\mathrm{true}\\ q={C}_{d\left(\mathrm{max}\right)}\mathrm{tanh}\left(4\frac{\sqrt{\frac{{A}_{\mathrm{cs}}}{\mathrm{\pi }}\frac{2\left|p\right|}{\mathrm{\rho }}}}{\mathrm{\nu }{\mathrm{Crit}}_{\mathrm{no}}}\right){A}_{\mathrm{cs}}\sqrt{\frac{2\left|p\right|}{\mathrm{\rho }}}\mathrm{sign}\left(p\right)& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}$ $\mathbf{Orifice Area Equations}$ $\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{A}_{\mathrm{cs}}={A}_{i}={A}_{t}& \mathrm{Exact}=\mathrm{true}\\ \left\{{A}_{\mathrm{cs}}=\mathrm{min}\left({A}_{\mathrm{open}},\mathrm{max}\left({A}_{\mathrm{close}},{A}_{i}\right)\right),{t}_{c}\frac{\mathrm{d}{A}_{i}}{\mathrm{d}t}+{A}_{i}={A}_{t}\right\}& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}$ ${A}_{t}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{A}_{\mathrm{close}}& p\le {p}_{\mathrm{close}}\\ {A}_{\mathrm{close}}+\left(p-{p}_{\mathrm{close}}\right)\frac{{A}_{\mathrm{open}}-{A}_{\mathrm{close}}}{{p}_{\mathrm{open}}-{p}_{\mathrm{close}}}& p<{p}_{\mathrm{open}}\\ {A}_{\mathrm{open}}& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}$ $\mathbf{Optional Volume Equations}$ ${V}_{{f}_{A}}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\mathrm{Va}\left(1+\frac{{p}_{A}}{\mathrm{El}}\right)& \mathrm{Use volume A}=\mathrm{true}\\ 0& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}\phantom{\rule[-0.0ex]{5.0ex}{0.0ex}}{V}_{{f}_{B}}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\mathrm{Vb}\left(1+\frac{{p}_{B}}{\mathrm{El}}\right)& \mathrm{Use volume B}=\mathrm{true}\\ 0& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}$ $q={q}_{A}-{q}_{{V}_{A}}=-\left({q}_{B}-{q}_{{V}_{B}}\right)$ ${q}_{{V}_{A}}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\frac{\mathrm{d}{V}_{{f}_{A}}}{\mathrm{d}t}& \mathrm{Use volume A}=\mathrm{true}\\ 0& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}\phantom{\rule[-0.0ex]{4.0ex}{0.0ex}}{q}_{{V}_{B}}=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\frac{\mathrm{d}{V}_{{f}_{B}}}{\mathrm{d}t}& \mathrm{Use volume B}=\mathrm{true}\\ 0& \mathrm{otherwise}\end{array}$

Variables

 Name Units Description Modelica ID ${A}_{\mathrm{cs}}$ ${m}^{2}$ Cross-sectional area of orifice Acs ${A}_{i}$ ${m}^{2}$ Filtered interpolated area At ${A}_{t}$ ${m}^{2}$ Interpolated area At ${q}_{\mathrm{VX}}$ $\frac{{m}^{3}}{s}$ Flow rate into port X's optional volume qVX ${V}_{{f}_{X}}$ ${m}^{3}$ Effective volume at port X VfX

Connections

 Name Description Modelica ID $\mathrm{portA}$ Upstream hydraulic port portA $\mathrm{portB}$ Downstream hydraulic port portB

Parameters

General

 Name Default Units Description Modelica ID ${p}_{\mathrm{closed}}$ $1.9·{10}^{7}$ $\mathrm{Pa}$ Pressure at which valve is fully closed ($A={A}_{\mathrm{closed}}$) pclosed ${p}_{\mathrm{open}}$ $2.05·{10}^{7}$ $\mathrm{Pa}$ Pressure at which valve is fully open ($A={A}_{\mathrm{open}}$) popen ${A}_{\mathrm{open}}$ $1·{10}^{-5}$ ${m}^{2}$ Valve area when fully open Aopen ${A}_{\mathrm{closed}}$ $1·{10}^{-12}$ ${m}^{2}$ Valve area when closed (leakage) Aclosed $\mathrm{Use constant Cd}$ $\mathrm{true}$ True (checked) means a constant coefficient of discharge is implemented, otherwise a variable ${C}_{d}$ is used in flow calculation UseConstantCd ${C}_{d}$ $0.7$ Flow-discharge coefficient; used when $\mathrm{Use constant Cd}$ is true Cd ${\mathrm{\Re }}_{\mathrm{Cr}}$ $12$ Reynolds number at critical flow; used when $\mathrm{Use constant Cd}$ is true ReCr ${C}_{d\left(\mathrm{max}\right)}$ $0.7$ Maximum flow-discharge coefficient; used when $\mathrm{Use constant Cd}$ is false Cd_max ${\mathrm{Crit}}_{\mathrm{no}}$ $1000$ Critical flow number; used when $\mathrm{Use constant Cd}$ is false Crit_no

Optional Volumes

 Name Default Units Description Modelica ID $\mathrm{Use volume A}$ $\mathrm{false}$ True (checked) means a hydraulic volume chamber is added to portA useVolumeA ${V}_{A}$ $1·{10}^{-6}$ ${m}^{3}$ Volume of chamber A Va $\mathrm{Use volume B}$ $\mathrm{false}$ True (checked) means a hydraulic volume chamber is added to portB useVolumeB ${V}_{B}$ $1·{10}^{-6}$ ${m}^{3}$ Volume of chamber B Vb

Fluid Parameters

The following parameters, used in the equations, are properties of the Hydraulic Fluid component used in the model.

 Name Units Description Modelica ID $\mathrm{\nu }$ $\frac{{m}^{2}}{s}$ Kinematic viscosity of fluid nu $\mathrm{\rho }$ $\frac{\mathrm{kg}}{{m}^{3}}$ Density of fluid rho $\mathrm{El}$ $\mathrm{Pa}$ Bulk modulus of fluid El