This thesis deals with the experimental and numerical analysis of the water hammer phenomenon generated by the discharge of a pressurized liquid into a pipeline kept under vacuum conditions. This flow configuration induces several multiphase phenomena such as cavitation and gas desorption that cannot be ignored in the water hammer behavior.<p><p>The motivation of this research work comes from the liquid propulsion systems used in spacecrafts, which can undergo fluid hammer effects threatening the system integrity. Fluid hammer can be particularly adverse during the priming phase, which involves the fast opening of an isolation valve to fill the system with liquid propellant. Due to the initial vacuum conditions in the pipeline system, the water hammer taking place during priming may involve multiphase phenomena, such as cavitation and desorption of a non-<p>condensable gas, which may affect the pressure surges produced in the lines. Even though this flow behavior is known, only few studies model the spacecraft hardware configuration, and a proper characterization of the two-phase flow is still missing. The creation of a reliable database and the physical understanding of the water hammer behavior in propulsion systems are mandatory to improve the physical models implemented in the numerical codes used to simulate this flow configuration.<p><p>For that purpose, an experimental facility modeling a spacecraft propulsion system has been designed, in which the physical phenomena taking place during priming are generated under controlled conditions in the laboratory using inert fluids. An extended experimental campaign was performed on the installation, aiming at analyzing the effect of various working parameters on the fluid hammer behavior, such as the initial pressure in the line, liquid saturation with the pressurant gas, liquid properties and pipe configuration. The influence of the desorbed gas during water hammer occurrence is found to have a great importance on the whole process, due to the added compressibility and lower speed of sound by an increasing amount of non-condensable gas in the liquid + gas mixture. This results in lower pressure levels and faster pressure peaks attenuation, compared to fluids without desorption. The two-phase flow was characterized by means of flow visualization of the liquid front at the location where the fluid hammer is generated. The front arrival was found to be preceded by a foamy mixture of liquid, vapor and non-condensable gas, and the pressure wave reflected at the tank may induce the liquid column separation at the bottom end. While column separation takes place, the successive pressure peaks are generated by the impact of the column back against the bottom end.<p><p>The resulting experimental database is then confronted to the predictions of the 1D numerical code EcosimPro/ESPSS used to assess the propulsion system designs. Simulations are performed with the flow configuration described before, modeling the experimental facility. The comparison of the numerical results against the experimental data shows that aspects such as speed of sound computation with a dissolved gas and friction modeling need to be improved. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This diploma thesis deals the formation of water hammer in pipes and the suppress the nega-tive effects especially for the use of protective devices (surge tank, air chamber, air valve and other). The special attention is paid to the use of the air valve, for which it was developed mathematical model. The solution is based on the use of numerical methods Lax-Wendroff with boundary conditions for the air valve.The numerical results are confronted with the ex-periment in conclusion.

Master thesis presents overview of existing types of check valves, their features, uses and issue called "cracking". Experimental part of this thesis focuses on the lift and swing check valves. Results of the measurement are evaluated from non-stationary flow point of view by developing and analyzing static and dynamic characteristics. This thesis takes into account losses and dynamic effects as main viewpoints. Two methods for measuring non-stationary velocities are used. Direct method called Gibson and indirect method laser doppler anemometry. Goal of the master thesis is to increase understanding of the check valves and their applicability.

This diploma thesis deals with problem of water hammer in pipes affected by viscoelastic behavior of pipe material. Mathematical model uses pressure dependent speed of sound in water air mixture. For purpose of numerical solution the Method of Characteristics with independent time step is introduced. This method is compared with commonly used methods such as Method of Characteristics (MOC) and Lax Wendroff scheme. Derived model, solved with Method of Characteristics with independent time step, is verified with experimental simulation.

La Commande prédictive ou Commande Optimale à Horizon Glissant (COHG) devient de plus en plus populaire dans de nombreuses applications pratiques en raison de ses avantages importants tels que la stabilisation et la prise en compte des contraintes. Elle a été bien étudiée pour des systèmes en dimension finie même dans le cas non linéaire. Cependant, son extension aux systèmes en dimension infinie n'a pas retenu beaucoup d'attention de la part des chercheurs. Ce travail de thèse apporte des contributions à l'application de cette approche aux systèmes de lois de conservation. Nous présentons tout d'abord une preuve de stabilité complète de la COHG pour certaines classes de systèmes en dimension infinie. Ce résultat est ensuite utilisé pour les systèmes hyperboliques 2x2 commandés aux frontières et appliqué à un problème de contrôle de canal d'irrigation. Nous proposons aussi l'extension de cette stratégie au cas de réseaux de systèmes hyperboliques 2x2 en cascade avec une application à un ensemble de canaux d'irrigation connectés. Nous étudions également les avantages de la COHG dans le contexte des systèmes non linéaires et semi-linéaires notamment vis-à-vis des chocs. Toutes les analyses théoriques sont validées par simulation afin d'illustrer l'efficacité de l'approche proposée. / The predictive control or Receding Horizon Optimal Control (RHOC) is becoming increasingly popular in many practical applications due to its significant advantages such as the stabilization and constraints handling. It has been well studied for finite dimensional systems even in the nonlinear case. However, its extension to infinite dimensional systems has not received much attention from researchers. This thesis proposes contributions on the application of this approach to systems of conservation laws. We present a complete proof of stability of RHOC for some classes of infinite dimensional systems. This result is then used for 2x2 hyperbolic systems with boundary control, and applied to an irrigation canal. We also propose the extension of this strategy to networks of cascaded 2x2 hyperbolic systems with an application to a set of connected irrigation canals. Furthermore, we study the benefits of RHOC in the context of nonlinear and semi-linear systems in particular with respect to the problem of shocks. All theoretical analyzes are validated by simulation in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.