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Hey JBA, You brought a good point about accounting for the rod area. I realized my biggest problem was that I was oversimplifying the system model. Thank you for your help!

Hello all, I'm trying to calculate the pressures exerted back on a piston by a working hydraulic fluid in a damper system. I've attached a drawing of the system and the equations I'm using. Essentially the piston motion is restricted by flow through an orifice. I have data for the flow rates...