Fig 1.
A schematic of a typical air brake configuration.
Fig 2.
Constant area unsteady flow for brake pipe.
Fig 3.
The discrete schematic of FVM.
Fig 4.
Approximate HLL Riemann solver.
Fig 5.
Simplified structure of the locomotive control unit.
Fig 6.
Structure of a China vehicle control unit.
Fig 7.
Structure of sliding valve and graduating valve.
Fig 8.
Flowchart for the simulation.
Fig 9.
Simulation results for a train consisting of 116 vehicles.
(A) Small pressure reduction. (B) Large pressure reduction.
Table 1.
Specifications of the CPUs.
Fig 10.
Comparison of CPU simulation efficiency.
Fig 11.
Comparison of simulation efficiency for different numbers of vehicles.