Visualization of physical and mathematical models of thermodynamic processes of single-phase flows using MATLAB to diagnose the condition of external heat supply networks

Abstract

Abstract Nowadays, Russia has the longest heating network system in Europe (about 125 000 km in total). Given the constant growth in the volume of construction space, the length will constantly increase. Consequently, there is a request to increase the level of reliability of heat supply networks. It is possible to satisfy the request only by increasing the volume and quality of comprehensive diagnostics of heat supply networks with simultaneous reduction of time costs. This is possible only if a new generation of measurement and computing complex (MCC) is developed for the diagnosis of heat supply networks. The team of authors examines the features of the information environment in heat supply networks, separately noting the possibility of switching the flow from single-phase to multi-phase and back. The paper proposes to consider a solution to a problem that arises when trying to visualize physical and mathematical models of thermodynamic processes of single-phase flows using MATLAB. It consists in the fact that the desired physical and mathematical model should describe the thermodynamic processes of a single-phase flow, but taking into account that this flow moves in the external heat supply network. The possibility of using the MATLAB functional environment for developing a model based on visually oriented programming is considered in detail, which allows us to lay the foundations for further forecasting the development of the heat supply system.