Engineering glossary
Select a term to open its definition, related concepts and practical engineering resources.
A
B
- Backcalc
- Backpressure
- Bend
- Best Efficiency Point (BEP)
- Bill of Materials
- Bingham Plastic
- Boosters
- Boundaries
- Branch Angle
- Buried Pipe Heat Loss
- Bursting Disk
C
- Calculation Options
- Casson Fluid
- Cavitation
- Centrifugal Pump
- Centrifugal Pump Basic Hydraulic Criteria
- Centrifugal Pump Derating
- Centrifugal Pump Performance Curve
- Check Valve
- Classification
- Component
- Component Chart
- Composite Chart
- Connection Rules
- Connectors
- Controllers
- Convergence
- Correlation
- Cross Junction
- Cv
- Cvd Deposition Velocity
D
- Darcy – Weisbach Equation
- Data Palette
- Database
- Density
- Deposition Velocity
- Dialog Box
- Differential Head
- Directional Components
- Do Heat Loss
- Driver
- Duty Efficiency
- Duty Flow
- Duty NPSH Available
- Duty NPSH Required
- Duty Point
- Duty Power
- Duty Pressure Rise
- Duxbury Method
E
- Economic Velocity
- Efficiency
- EGL
- Elevation
- Elevation Gradient
- Environment
- Equation of state (EOS)
- Equipment Performance
F
- Fixed Temperature Change Heat Loss
- Fixed Transfer Rate Heat Loss
- Flow Regime
- Flowsheet
- Fluid
- Fluid Type
- Flyby
G
H
- Hazen-Williams Friction Factor
- Hazen-Williams Friction Model
- Heat Exchanger
- Heat Loss Model
- Herschel – Bulkley Fluid
- Heterogeneous Settling Slurry Correlation
- HGL
I
- Impeller
- Inclined Pipe Correction
- Inclined Pipe Settling Slurry Deposition Velocity Correlation
- Inlet Boundary
- Input Editor
- Intermediate Flow
- Isometric Mode
J
K
L
M
N
- Named User
- Newtonian Fluid
- Newtonian Friction Loss Correlations
- Nodes
- Nominal Size
- Non-Newtonian Fluid
- Non-Newtonian Friction Loss Correlations
- Non-settling Slurry
- Nozzle
- NPSH
- NPSHA
- NPSHR
O
P
- Piezometric Pressure
- Pipe
- Pipe Slope
- Positive Displacement Pump
- Power Law Fluid
- Pressure Gradient
- Pressure Model
- Pressure Relief Valve
Q
R
S
- Scaling
- Script
- Settling Slurry
- Settling Slurry Deposition Velocity Correlation
- Settling Slurry Horizontal Pipe Friction Loss Correlation
- Settling Slurry Vertical Pipe Friction Loss Correlation
- Shell-MIT
- Size Change
- Sizing Model
- Sprinkler
- Stagnation Pressure
- Static Pressure
- System Curve
