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celestian edited this page May 27, 2012 · 15 revisions

Basic physical reasoning is quite simple: write a equation of motion a train. Applying Newton's second law (known as the law of force) and we get all the necessary information (time, distance, speed).

equation of motion

m a = F_e - F_b - F_a - F_v - F_r

where:

m ... weight of the train, a ... train acceleration, F_e ... traction engine force, F_b ... braking force, F_a ... inertial force during acceleration, F_v ... resistance force of vehicle, F_r ... resistance force of route

inertial force during acceleration F_a

It occurs only when the vehicle acceleration. It depends on the size of acceleration (a [m/s^2]), accelerating the vehicle weight (m [kg]) and size of the coefficient of rotating masses (rho_d [-]).

F_a = a m (1 + rho_d)

resistance force of vehicle F_v

Resistance force of vehicle is calculated by an empirical relationship. You need to know the tabulated values ​​of dimensionless coefficients rho_a, rho_b, rho_c. This force is quadratically dependent on the speed of the train in km / h

F_v = m (rho_a v^2 + rho_b v + rho_c)

resistance force of route F_r

This force depends on the weight of train (m [kg]), gravitational acceleration (g [m / s ^ 2]) and gradient (slope [ppt]).

F_r = m g slope

solution

To resolve the motion of the train we need to know its velocity dependence on time. Engine force and braking force will never work together, so consider a start, then F_b = 0

m a = F_e - F_a - F_v - F_r

Engine power F_e we can write as

F_e = (3600 P adhesion (v)) / v

where P [kW] is engine power, v [km/h] is the current speed, adhesion(v) [-] is the coefficient of adhesion of wheel depends on the speed and constant 3600 flows of dimension units.

Then we can write

m a = ( (3600 P adhesion(v)) / v ) - a m (1 + rho_d) - m (rho_a v^2 + rho_b v + rho_c) - m g slope

m a + a m (1 + rho_d) = ( (3600 P adhesion(v)) / v ) - m (rho_a v^2 + rho_b v + rho_c) - m g slope


a = [(3600 P adhesion(v)) / v ) - m (rho_a v^2 + rho_b v + rho_c + g slope) ] / [m (2 + rho_d)]

This equation we will solve by numerical method, see mathematical model


note

Adhesion by Curtius-Kniffler is in form

(adhesion [-]) = (7500.0 / (velocity [km/h]) + 44.0) + 161.0) * 0.001