This book (http://www.amazon.com/Piping-Pipelines-Assessment-Stationary-Equipment/dp/0750678801) has a chapter (chapter 7) discussing hot tapping.
You can go to google books (http://books.google.com/) and to a search for "piping and pipelines" and the first link that you see should be this...
katmar, the equation I gave with alpha for the flow coefficient was taken from pages 417-418 of "Fluid Mechanics, 5th ed" by Frank M. White. They show the flow coefficient (alpha) as a function of the velocity-of-approach factor (E) times the discharge coefficient (Cd).
Thanks to everyone who...
Latexman,
One of my advising professors for my thesis research is actually the person who is doing the AVL modeling since he is the only person with the software. I asked him last week if he had a phone number for AVL so I could talk to them about it but he said that the last time he tried...
Hello, I have searched all over and have not been able to find the answer to this question so I decided to post it here in hopes of getting some help.
First let me explain my situation. We are using an Engine Cycle and Gas Exchange Simulation program called BOOST that is made by AVL to model...
