Research on pipeline leakage identification method based on Lyapunov exponent spectrum

In terms of resource transportation, pipelines play a very important role, however, it’s leakage is almost inevitable, so leakage monitoring has always been a research hotspot. The leakage identification of water supply pipeline is studied in this paper. The vibration caused by turbulence and cavitation at the leak point has chaotic characteristics, and the spectral distribution of which has its own special area. Chaos can be judged by the Lyapunov exponent, this means that the occurrence of the leak is judged. By this method, the leakage can be effectively identified. The above theory is verified by experiments in this paper.