Installation Effects of Ultrasonic Flowmeter in Single Bend Pipe

• Abstract:

  The downstream flow of 90°single bend was investigated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). An acoustic transit time flowmeter was exposed to the downstream flow at various positions. Measurement errors with different meter configurations and effects of pipe wall roughness were discussed. Numerical simulation results of three diameter pipes 0.1 m, 1 m and 10 m with increasing the roughness from 0 to 1 mm were presented within Reynolds number (Re) range from 5 × 10³ to 5 × 10⁶.
• Keywords:

  Ultrasonic flowmeter, Installation effect, Single bend pipe
• Download:

  IMEKO-TC9-2010-087.pdf
• DOI:

  _unreg_tc9-2010.087

Event details:

• IMEKO TC:

  TC9
• Event name:

  FLOMEKO 2010
• Title:

  15th Conference on Flow Measurement

• Place:

  Taipei, CHINESE TAIPEI (economy)
• Time:

  12 October 2010 - 14 October 2010