Study of transitory regimes in hydraulic cooling circuits

The problem of transient regimes operated voluntary or not in hydraulic circuits is posed and the risks they cause are shown. As for the case of coolant flow loss the various methods for studying the problem are examined: numerical simulation (explicit and implicit), physical model, on-site testing. The numerical methods that not yet fully satisfying or economic, are still very badly representative for hollow closures. Physical models, expensive in the case of a first facility, are not still fully representative (inconsistent similitudes, difficulties in pump picturing). Site test recordings are often a trouble for exploitation and always limited to nondestructive tests. Comparison between the three methods, already satisfying, will have to be improved to allow remedies to the over pressures due to the transients to be developed