What convergence method does PIPE-FLO Compressible use to calculate the balanced flow rates and pressures?
PIPE-FLO Compressible employs the following convergence methods: • Steepest Decent • Hardy Cross • Genetic Algorithm • Flow Averaging • Pressure Averaging • Newton-Raphson The program employs all methods simultaneously, the results produced by the best method is used as the starting point for all methods in the next iteration. This insures the program has the highest probability to converge to a solution in the least number of iterations.
