Water Hammer Equations Formulas Design Calculator
Fluid Mechanics Hydraulics

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Solving for pressure increase.

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Inputs:

flow velocity (V)		meter/second centimeter/hour centimeter/second foot/day foot/second inch/hour inch/second kilometer/second knot mach sea level 15 C meter/day mile/hour mile/second millimeter/second speed of light in vacuum yard/second
upstream pipe length (L)		meter attometer centimeter chain dekameter decimeter exameter femtometer foot gigameter hectometer inch kilometer light year link megameter micrometer mile millimeter nanometer petameter picometer rod terameter yard
valve closing time (t)		second century day decade hour minute week year
inlet pressure (Pi)		pascal atmosphere bar dyne/centimeter^2 foot of water inch of mercury inch of water kilonewton/meter^2 millibar millimeter of mercury newton/meter^2 pound/foot^2 pound/inch^2 torr

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Conversions:

flow velocity (V)	=	0		=	0	foot/second
upstream pipe length (L)	=	0		=	0	foot
valve closing time (t)	=	0		=	0	second
inlet pressure (Pi)	=	0		=	0	pound/inch^2

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Solution:

pressure increase (P)

=

HAS NOT BEEN CALCULATED

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Other Units:

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References - Books:

National Resources Conservation Service. National Engineering Handbook. 1995. United States Department of Agriculture.

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