ANALYSIS OF FLOWING FLUID EFFECT ON FLOW AVERAGING TUBE

Abstract

This paper presents a mathematical model and results of numerical simulations for a fluid flow around a flow averaging tube. The calculations have been performed using the commercially available FLUENT software. The authors have applied the currently known studies of the models of turbulence and their applicability in certain flow conditions and hence selected the RNG k-ε turbulence model including appropriate functions to be used for determination of pressures and velocities at the sites of occurrence of considerable gradients. The distributions of pressures and velocities around a sensor are presented along with pressure distributions, instantaneous and averaged in time, on the measuring tube surface. The paper determines the frequencies of measuring tube free vibrations for one sided and two-sided tube fitting for the tube length in the range 100–1500 mm. This analysis has been conducted with the aid of solving equations for free undamped vibrations for specific models. The graphical presentation involves an admissible range of tube lengths with one and two-sided fitting for the specified flowing air velocities.