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A check valve, non-return valve, reflux valve, retention valve, foot valve, or one-way valve is a valve that normally allows fluid to flow through it in only one direction. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Check valveA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Development of novel thermal diode based on improved check valve and modified wick structureInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Valve selection handbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Advances in passive check valve piezoelectric pumpsCited 54 times
- Go sideways: ValveA closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of valvesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A valve in a pipeline which allows the liquid or gas to flow in one direction only.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Advances in passive check valve piezoelectric pumps
An analysis of check valve performance characteristics based on valve design
A simple micro check valve using a photo-patterned hydrogel valve core
A methodology for predicting check valve slam
Swing Check Valve Characterization and Modeling During Transients
3D Printed Micro Check Valve for Biomedical Applications
Miniaturized Passive Hydrogel Check Valve for Hydrocephalus Treatment
Check valve slam analysis in pumping station
🆕 Influential since 2022
Development of novel thermal diode based on improved check valve and modified wick structure
Numerical simulation of pneumatic throttle check valve using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Experimental and numerical investigation on dynamic characteristic of nozzle check valve and fluid-valve transient interaction
Piston offset inhibition method based on check valve backflow in a linear compressor
Reducing the water hammering, surges, and slamming caused by check valve closure in a wastewater pumping station by using a swing flex check valve
📚 Books worth reading
Valve selection handbookR. W. Zappe · 1981
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