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US 4,317,178 AGranted
Multiple velocity traverse flow rate measuring technique
AssigneeFischer & Porter Co.
InventorVictor P. Head
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Abstract
A method and systems based thereon for conducting a multiple velocity traverse of a flow stream cross section of known shape and area to determine flow therethrough. The technique employs any one of the known methods of numeral integration to place the traverse chords and weight the chord average velocities, the technique being applicable to flow streams of any known cross-sectional shape and area without requiring that the chords be parallel.
Claims11
A system for measuring volumetric flowrate through a stream cross section of known shape and Area A comprising:
- (a) means for measuring line-average velocity u.sub.i on a plurality of n chords traversing said cross section so as to partition said area into predetermined fractional areas a.sub.i ;
- said chords being positioned so as to partition said Area A into said predetermined fractional areas a.sub.i as measured within said cross section between a reference line bisecting the Area A and each of said chords, the predetermined fractional areas being chosen to be predetermined fractions x.sub.i of the semi-areas A/2;
- said predetermined area fractions x.sub.i and weight factors w.sub.i being chosen to be equal to the abscissas x.sub.i and weight factors w.sub.i of one of the following methods of numerical integration:
- (i) Gaussian Integration
- (ii) Chebyshev Integration
- (iii) Lobatto Integration
- (b) data processing means coupled to said measuring means and yielding volumetric flowrate Q according to the computation ##EQU17##
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