Absolute transit time detection for ultrasonic gas flowmeters based on time and phase domain characteristics

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 142-145

  Kupnik, Mario ^a   Krasser, Edwin ^b   Gröschl, Martin ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; GAS METERS; GASES; ONTOLOGY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CAPACITIVE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; COMBUSTION ENGINES; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; GAS TEMPERATURES; HILBERT TRANSFORMS; MASS FLOWS; ON TIMES; PARASITIC EFFECTS; PHASE DOMAINS; PHASE SIGNALS; PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS; REAL MEASUREMENTS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; TRANSIT TIMES; ULTRASONIC GAS FLOWMETERS;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 48149089996     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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