Do you know how to calculate the Water Hammer?
Perform the Basic Analysis with our Simple Water Hammer Software

The main function sought with Ariete is to verify the design of water pipeline systems under internal pressures conditions.

That is why its main interface presents the analyzed pipeline longitudinal profile, including the envelopes of maximum hydraulic grades that piping components can withstand based on its nominal pressure. Thus, the user will be able to visually determine, via comparing the resulting envelopes, which pipeline’s sections are at risk of failure when the water hammer phenomena takes place.

If you want to see how Ariete allows you to easily detect those pipeline sections that won’t withstand the calculated internal pressures, check out this Tutorial.

In Ariete’s actual version, it is possible to include the following water hammer control devices:

• One Way Surge Tank
• Two Way Surge Tank
• Surge Relief Valve
• Air Chamber

When the modeled system is a pumping pipeline, it is possible to include at the pumping station’s discharge pipe, the following water hammer control devices:

• Air Chamber
• Surge Relief Valve
• Pumping station’s bypass line.
• Flywheel (pumping equipment’s rotational inertia increasing)

Look at this Tutorial for more information about the Water Hammer control devices included in Ariete.

Our target with Ariete (as well as with our other products in general) is to put within the reach of civil engineers and professionals in the hydraulic area, designing tools that allow them to perform, in a quick and reliable form, the process of designing and making decisions about the need for more complexes calculations (or software).

Bearing in mind the previous idea, is that we seek to make the data introduction as practical as possible, so that the complexity is negligible, considering the type of phenomenon that can be analyzed with Ariete (hydraulic transients, water hammer).

Specifically, in the case of the data required to perform the water hammer calculation in pipelines, you just need to enter the pipe material, wall thickness, and the number of control points in which the pipeline will be divided. Leave the rest to Ariete.

In this Tutorial, you’ll see how easy is to configure the pipeline data to be ready for water hammer calculation with Ariete.

Ariete is oriented to the Design and Evaluation of simple pipeline systems, either operating by gravity or by pumping (gravity or pumping mains). These types of systems have a water source installation at their upstream end (pumping station, reservoir or tank), a main pressurized conveyance pipe, and a receiving water installation (reservoir, tank or valve).

A pipeline system in Ariete can be of any length, but it is only possible, in the current version, to specify a unique pipe’s diameter and material, and that’s why it does not include special fittings on the line such as tees, wyes, etc.

Ariete is based on the well-known Method of Characteristics.

In our blog, you will find a series of detailed tutorials and several videos, in which you will see not only how Ariete will facilitate and simplify your water pipeline design tasks but also learn to use all its features. Click here to see the list of tutorials.

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