Title: Experimental studies of the thermal flow metre and its analytical and numerical analysis

Authors: Artur Cebula

Addresses: Institute of Thermal Power Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Al. Jana Pawla II 37, 31-864, Cracow, Poland

Abstract: The paper presents an analytical and numerical model of a thermal flow metre. The temperature distribution along the thermal flow metre is presented. Results show a very good conformity between numerical and analytical model. Besides the calculation, experimental results are presented, where the duct wall temperature was measured. The author performed a test to measure temperature of duct wall surface. The dependency of mass flow rate in terms of the duct surface temperature difference ṁ = f(ΔT) was developed. Obtained results represent a strong background for further research and investigation of the thermal flow metre and its application for measuring the flow rate of liquids.

Keywords: thermal flow metre; heat transfer; conjugated heat transfer; CFD; measurements.

DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2018.096636

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2018 Vol.18 No.6, pp.392 - 397

Received: 03 Nov 2016
Accepted: 05 Oct 2017
Published online: 07 Dec 2018 *

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