Lab experiments demonstration calibration of industrial flow meters as per relevant standards in 1 gas 2 liquid target group. Powell, nihan dogan department of chemical engineering and materials science, university of california, davis, california. Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids, second edition ethirajan rathakrishnan on. Instrumentation measurements and experiments in fluids fluid. Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids. Level and flow measurement and control can be tested together within fluid controlled. Because of the nature of the course and laboratory facilities, you may be required to perform some experiments not yet covered in the classroom. There are many instruments used in flow measurements such as.
Because temperature measurements via thermocouples are. The electronics revolution within the instrumentation industry has continued at an extraordinary pace, as can be seen with the many recent improvements in display technology and smart operating features. Pdf this handbook consolidates authoritative and stateoftheart. Topological considerations in fluid mechanics measurements. Preprint for experiments in fluids, 28 2000, 197205 measurement of critical contact angle in a microgravity space experiment p. The design of flow measurement systems involves a wide variety of multidisciplinary activities including modelling the flow sensor, the fluid flow and the sensorfluid interactions through the use of. Usually these measurements are associated with freesurface or stationary flows. Flow measurement and instrumentation rg journal impact. The experiment determines density and kinematic viscosity of a fluid by equating. Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids, second edition is primarily focused on essentials required for experimentation in fluids, explaining basic principles, and addressing the tools and methods needed for advanced experimentation. Simultaneous rheology and raman spectroscopy during the.
These advances have been especially remarkable in the latest generation of devices for measuring viscosity and yield stress. A program was initiated in 1977 to develop instrumentation for measurement of invessel local fluid phenomena in safety experiments designed to investigate the refill and reflood phases of the pwr. It comprises four parts covering experiments in fluid mechanics, measurement of primary quantities, specific experimental environments and techniques, and analyses and postprocessing of data. This laboratory manual is intended to guide you through several experiments in the hydraulic engineering. It is an introductory course where flow behaviour, fluid forces and analysis tools are introduced. Flow measurement and instrumentation is dedicated to disseminating the latest research results on all aspects of flow measurement, in both closed conduits and open channels. In this experiment, the experimenters used the linear ruler, vernier caliper, micrometer, and the triple beam balance. Ae3051 experimental fluid dynamics measurements in unsteady. Effects of excitation around jet preferred mode strouhal. Fluid dynamics, measurement techniques, experimental.
Principles and basic laboratory experiments crc press book presenting a mathematical basis for obtaining valid data, and basic concepts inmeasurement and instrumentation, this authoritative text is ideal for a onesemesterconcurrent or independent lecturelaboratory course. In addition, this experiment involves measurements in a reacting flow produced in a rijke tube, pulse combustor. Instrument for simultaneous measurement of density and viscosity. Wind tunnel instrumentation showing load cells on the testing floor. This fluid can range from thick oils to light gasses. This paper shows the approach of applications of magnetic liquids in electromechanical drive systems.
The measurements at different pressures, temperatures, magnetic fields, and the. A type of linear measurement peculiar to the fluids laboratory is the measurement of surface level in an open channel. Ae3051 experimental fluid dynamics measurements in unsteady combustion objective this laboratory introduces the measurement of nonrandomly fluctuating properties and acoustic oscillations. Principles and basic laboratory experiments mechanical engineering tse, francis s. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the library of congress catalog. There is a tendency to make flow measurement a highly theoretical and technical subject but what most influences quality measurement is the practical application of meters, metering principles, and metering equipment and the use of quality equipment that can continue to function through the years with proper maintenance have the most influence in obtaining.
The design of flow measurement systems involves a wide variety. Instrument for simultaneous measurement of density and. Systems such as the heat exchanger, turbine, heat pump, air conditioner, and experimental test section of a wind tunnel are a few examples. The procedure for making measurements is controlled by the knobs in the cursor section. Scales and tapes for the measurement of length are readily available in a variety of forms. Raman spectroscopy, on the other hand, is a vibrational spectroscopic technique that can. Accordingly, the fluid flow diagnostics are classified as measurement of. Instrument for simultaneous measurement of density and viscosity abstract the speed of torsional stress waves transmitted in solid waveguides submerged in a liquid depends, among other things, on the liquids density and viscosity and the. Compressibility effect on large structures in free shear flows m. Ae3051 experimental fluid dynamics measurements in. Instrumentation measurements and experiments in fluids. Basic approaches to integrating experiments in fluid mechanics with cfd. Flow measurement and instrumentation journal elsevier. Woods hole oceanographic institution woods hole, ma 02543 may 2006 technical report funding was provided by the national science foundation under contract nos.
Within fluids, field measurements may be made by observing the motion of charged particles of known size and charge whose movement relative to the fluid is constrained by viscous drag. In ase369k we will use both an instrument type oscilloscope tektronix 2211 and a virtual oscilloscope, which is based on the labview softw are package. The purpose of the experiment was to show how the use of different measuring tools can affect the precision of the data. Instrumentation measurements and experiments in fluids free download as pdf file. Table of contents for instrumentation, measurements, and. The springer handbook of experimental fluid mechanics has been prepared for physicists and engineers in research and development in universities. Instrumentation measurements and experiments in fluids pdf. The purpose of this report is to discuss an experiment on measurements. For a single instrument measuring some variable, the bias errors. Woods hole oceanographic institution mblwhoi library. Your oscilloscope has, in general, four major sections, which control the operation of the instrument. Request pdf instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids mechanical engineers involved with flow mechanics have long needed an.
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This requires an extra effort on your part to read the relevant sections of the textbook, as well. Springer handbook of experimental fluid mechanics springerlink. Two versions are available, one for fluids with high dielectric constants a and another for those with low dielectric constants b. Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids request. Introduction measuring fluid flow is one of the most important aspects of process control. The proper selection and use of experimental instrumentation. Fluid flow measurements introduction the flow of fluid through a network of pipes has many engineering applications. Summary of level measurement techniques availability readout range of heat deposition continuous level measurement capacitive gauge prototype frequency less than 1mw superconducting wire commercial voltage tens of mws. Research center, the ohio state university, columbus, oh 43235, usa. Pdf springer handbook of experimental fluid mechanics. Measurement in fluid mechanics also features extensive background materials in system response, measurement uncertainty, signal analysis, optics. Timeofflight tof measurements are used by current liquidlevel measurement. Control measurement major process variables flow pressure temperature level flow measurement dp type rotameter magnetic vortex ultrasonic mass flow introduction measuring fluid flow is one of the most important aspects of process control.
Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids, 2nd. Systems have been developed and demonstrated for performing quantitative velocity measurements in reducedgravity combustion science and fluid physics investigations. Rathakrishnan author of instrumentation, measurements, and. There is now a wide variety of methods available to measure the flow of liquids, solids, gases and vapours. Instrumentation measurements and experiments in fluids pdf instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids. Inline ultrasonic device for flow and rheology measurements of complex fluids robert l. This handbook consolidates authoritative and stateoftheart information from the large number of disciplines used in experimental fluid mechanics into a. Compressibility effects on large structures in free shear. Experimental and numerical investigation of boiling flow in a.
I physical methods, instruments and measurements yu. Table of contents for instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids author, e. Measurement of pressure distribution from piv experiments. Examples of these instruments are described in this chapter for. The experiments are done for five different values of the attack angle, which are 0, 5, 12, 20, and 25 degrees as well three magnitude for the jet flow velocity, including 0, 19. Presenting a mathematical basis for obtaining valid data, and basic concepts inmeasurement and instrumentation. The measurement of water flow rate is an important topic in the study of fluid dynamics. Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids, second edition is primarily focused on essentials required for experimentation in fluids. Instrumentation, control and automation are terms from the. Flow measurement and instrumentation is essential reading for instrumentation engineers in the oil, gas, power, chemical, food, water and waste treatment industries, manufacturers of flowmeters, and academics involved in research in this area. Fluid flow measurement flow measurement has a history of about 3000 years.
It has been studied only in the last 200 years and in the last 30 years all the new techniques have evolved. Weislogel abstract mathematical theory predicts that small changes in container shape or in contact angle can give rise to large shifts of liquid in a microgravity environment. Physics lab2 physics 2048 lab report lab 2 measurements. Technical personnel from mechanical, instrumentation, chemical, petroleum or electrical engineering with a background of industrial instrumentation and control in fluid flow measurement and related field. The timeresolved velocity vectors previously determined for a single 3. Instrumentation for electrostatic measurements sciencedirect.
This lab is run in conjunction with the theory course me 231 fluid mechanics. The cell face pseudo velocity required in the pressure equation is approximated by a simple linear average of the adjacent nodal pseudo. Approaches to the application of magnetic fluids in. The experiment is designed to study uniform water flow over a range of flow rates. Instrumentation, measurements, and experiments in fluids taylor.
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