Hydraulic Characteristics of Transporting a Piped Carriage in a Horizontal Pipe Based on the Bidirectional Fluid-Structure Interaction

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Experimental system. Note: 1: water tank. 2: steel penstocks. 3: centrifugal water pump. 4: regulating valve. 5: electromagnetic flowmeter. 6: input port for piped carriage. 7: braking device. 8: millisecond photoelectric timing devices. 9: test section. 10: piped carriage. 11: rectangular water channel. 12: pressure sensors. 13: standard dynamic pressure collection box. 14: Laser Doppler Anemometry. 15: high-speed camera. 16: personal computer. 17: 180° pipe bend. 18: horizontal pipe. 19: plastic recycling bins. 20: energy-eliminated orifice plate. 21: flow direction.