An Advanced Numerical Model for Single Straight Tube Coriolis Flowmeters |
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| Tao Wang, Roger C. Baker. Yousif Hussain |
- Abstract:
- A detailed numerical model has been developed to simulate the single straight tube Coriolis flowmeter, which includes all important practical features. The measuring tube is modeled as fluid-tube interaction elements characterized as mass, stiffness and damping matrices based on the theories of fluid-structure interaction and finite element method. Other features, such as the inner and outer cases and the driver spring as in Krohne OPTIMASS flowmeters, are modeled as standard ANSYS beam and shell elements and coupled to the measuring tube. The modal frequency and phase shift from experiments are used to validate the model. In particular, our results show that the modal behaviour of the meter can only be adequately modeled if these practical features are included.
- Keywords:
- Coriolis mass flowmeters, finite element, fluid structure interaction
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC9-2004-061.pdf
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