The use of electric network analyzers for pipe network analysis

THE determination of fluid-flow and pressure drop in complicated pipe networks such as gas or water distribution systems presents many problems similar to those encountered by the electrical engineer in the study of transmission and distribution networks. As the network analyzer has proved to be a very great help to the electrical engineer in his studies, it seems reasonable that similar techniques utilizing similar analyzers would be of considerable value in the analysis of pipe networks. Several investigators have reported methods for applying network analyzer techniques to gas or water distribution problems, some using special handling of conventional analyzers and others using special analyzers built solely for fluid-flow problems.