Study of acoustic transducer protrusion and recess effects on ultrasonic flowmeter measurement by numerical simulation

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 488-493

  Zheng, Dandan ^a   Zhang, Pengyong ^a   Xu, Tianshi ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamic; Transducer protrusion; Transducer recess; Ultrasonic flowmeter

Indexed keywords

CFD METHOD; CFD MODELING; COMPARISON RESULT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW EFFECTS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MODELING APPROACH;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC FLOWMETERS;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EID: 80052866269     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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