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This component models a curved bend in the overall flow regime for incompressible and single-phase fluid flow through circular cross sectional area considering surface roughness. It is expected that also compressible fluid flow can be handled up to about Ma = 0.3. It is assumed that neither mass nor energy is stored in this component. In the model basically a function is called to compute the mass flow rate as a function of pressure loss for a curved bend. Also the inverse of this function is defined, and a tool might use this inverse function instead, in order to avoid the solution of a nonlinear equation.

The details of the model are described in the documentation of the underlying function.