How can I see how much flow is leaving the surge valve during the transient simulation?
If your surge valve is at a “Tee” (separate short pipe going from the main line to the surge valve at a dead end) then you can graph the flow over time by adding the pipe end as a report point. To do this, go to Analysis > Calculation Options, open your transient calculation options and make sure “report points” is set to “all points”, or “selected points”, with the surge valve added as a report point in the report point collection. Then, after computing the transient simulation, go to Analysis > Transient Results Viewer and plot a time history of “flow” for the pipe endpoint adjacent to the surge valve.
