Wet-gas flow modeling for the straight section of throat-extended Venturi meter

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2080-2087

  Xu, Lijun ^a   Zhou, Wanlu ^b   Li, Xiaomin ^a   Wang, Minghao ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitting error; flow modeling; separated flow; Venturi meter; wet gas metering

Indexed keywords

FITTING ERROR; FLOW MODELING; SEPARATED FLOW; VENTURI METERS; WET-GAS METERING;

FLOW CONTROL; FLOW OF GASES; GAS METERS;

GASES;

EID: 79955962903     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2117190     Document Type: Article

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