Shuttle Valve
Shuttle valve with pressure bias
Description
Connections
Parameters
The Shuttle Valve component allows flow out of port C from the either port A or port B, depending which has the higher pressure.
Based on the orifice area, the pressure vs. flow rate relationship is calculated by the formulation used in the Orifice component.
The boolean parameters Use volume A, Use volume B, and Use volume C, when true, add optional volumes VA, VB, and VC to ports A, B, and C, respectively.
Name
Modelica ID
portA
Hydraulic port of left inlet
portB
Hydraulic port of right inlet
portC
Hydraulic port of bottom outlet
General
Default
Units
popen
1·104
Pa
Pressure difference to make one side fully open
Aclose
1·10−12
m2
Orifice area when closed (leakage)
Aopen
1·10−5
Orifice area when fully open
Exact
false
True (checked) means a first-order dynamics is used for the valve areas
tc
0.1
s
Time constant
Use constant Cd
true
True (checked) means a constant coefficient of discharge is implemented, otherwise a variable Cd is used in flow calculation
UseConstantCd
Cd
0.7
Flow-discharge coefficient; used when Use constant Cd is true
ℜCr
12
Reynolds number at critical flow; used when Use constant Cd is true
ReCr
Cd⁡max
Maximum flow-discharge coefficient; used when Use constant Cd is false
Cd_max
Critno
1000
Critical flow number; used when Use constant Cd is false
Crit_no
Optional Volumes
Use volume A
True (checked) means a hydraulic volume chamber is added to portA
useVolumeA
VA
1·10−6
m3
Volume of chamber A
Va
Use volume B
True (checked) means a hydraulic volume chamber is added to portB
useVolumeB
VB
Volume of chamber B
Vb
Use volume C
True (checked) means a hydraulic volume chamber is added to portC
useVolumeC
VC
Volume of chamber C
Vc
For more information see Port Volumes.
See Also
Hydraulics Library
Valves
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