Improved numerical integration method for flowrate of ultrasonic flowmeter based on Gauss quadrature for non-ideal flow fields

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-35

  Zheng, Dandan ^a   Zhao, Dan ^a   Mei, Jianqiang ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Gauss Jacobi method; Multipath ultrasonic flowmeter; Non ideal flow field; Numerical integration method for flowrate; Optimized Weighted Integration for Circular Sections method

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; FLOWMETERS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC FLOWMETERS;

GAUSS-JACOBI METHOD; MULTIPATH; NON IDEALS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATION METHODS; OPTIMIZED WEIGHTED INTEGRATION FOR CIRCULAR SECTIONS METHOD;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84910020976     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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