Table of contents
1. Tutorial examples
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Example 1: A simple hydraulic system
Cavitation and air release
1.3. Example 2: Using more complex hydraulic properties
Using one of the special fluids
1.4. Example 3: Using more complex line submodels
1.5. Example 4: Valves with duty cycles
1.6. Example 5: Position control for a hydraulic actuator
1.7. Example 6: Simple design exercise for a hydraulic suspension
2. Theory of fluid properties
2.1. Density and compressibility coefficient
Entrapped air
Dissolved air
2.2. Air release and cavitation
2.3. Viscosity
Viscosity influence on the flow
Flow through orifices
Frictional drag
References
3. AMESim Fluid Properties
3.1. Introduction
FP04
3.2. Tutorial example
4. Hydraulic Line modeling
4.1. Introduction
Zero-dimensional line submodels
“Lumped” and “Lumped distributive” line submodels
Lax-Wendroff “CFD 1D3” line models
Choosing between Lumped/Distributive and CFD 1D Lax-Wendroff models
4.2. Line submodel selection
4.3. Three important quantities
Aspect ratio
Dissipation number
Print interval
4.4. The selection process