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1/1000 slug length

1/1000 slug length

1/1000 slug length

(OP)
what is the mean of (1/1000 slug length )in the pipesim Output Summary and also what (1/1000 slug ) method for determine ing slug volume

RE: 1/1000 slug length

From Wikipedia

The slug is an English unit of mass. It is a mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s² when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. Therefore a slug has a mass of about 32.17405 pound-mass or 14.5939 kg.

    1 slug = 1 lbf·s²/ft

The slug is part of a subset of coherent units known as the gravitational foot-pound-second system (FPS), one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century. The slug was first used in 1902 by Arthur Mason Worthington (1852–1916) in Dynamics of Rotation (OED).

Another name for this unit in early literature is the geepound.

The term metric slug appears as a footnote in the 1967 seventh edition of Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. The term is sometimes collapsed to mug and it is also called the TME (German: technische Masseneinheit, technical mass unit). It is the mass that accelerates at 1 m/s² under a force of 1 kgf. Because 1 kgf = 9.806 65 N, the metric slug is 9.806 65 kilograms. This has also been called the hyl, but there is an alternate definition of the hyl equalling 9.806 65 grams which would make the kilohyl equal to the TME.

RE: 1/1000 slug length

Not slug as SLUG, its slug as in liquid in a pipe collecting over time, beginning to flow and then hitting or "slugging" a downstream vessel.  The 1/1000th probably refers to a limitation of 1/1000th of the length of pipe being the maximum liquid volume accumulated before it begins to run down the length of pipe and into the vessel, but I can't be sure.

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RE: 1/1000 slug length

(OP)
thanks hyposmurf & BigInch for yours repaly
 the slug i mean as BigInch  is a type of two phase flow

but BigInch  i don't think that (1/1000 slug length ) have the meaning that you say

RE: 1/1000 slug length

A 1/1000 slug length means that one in every 1000 slugs will be of that length. This will typically be the "design value" for the terrain induced slug.

Cheers,
Joerd

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