Notional average specific volume

This final method is based on the approximate methods for calculating compressible flow in a pipe, as described in Sections 6.8, 6.9 and Appendix 2, and in a valve, as described in Section 9.11.2. The major approximation made is that the specific volume of the gas in large stretches of pipework can be represented adequately by a notional average specific volume. The benefit of ASVAM is that it can be programmed to avoid implicit loops, and hence the associated problems of convergence in the main equations, while maintaining a very reasonable accuracy. 

Having derived the ratio of supply vessel to pipe outlet pressures, p /p), we may estimate the notional average specific volume throughout pipe and valve from equation (6.62), namely ... 

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