Synthetic Turbulence Modeling for Evaluation of Ultrasonic Cross-Correlation Flow Measurement

Date

2017-12-30

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0955-5986

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Publisher

Elsevier

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Article

Peer reviewed

Yes

Abstract

Performance of an ultrasonic cross-correlation flow measurement instrument may be significantly affected by turbulence at the location of the ultrasonic sensors. In this paper, a new method of generating Synthetic Turbulence is presented, to provide an effective tool for creating a variety of turbulent fields, which can be used to model and analyze instrument performance under different flow conditions. In the proposed method, a turbulent field is presented as a Fourier time-series in each point in space. Turbulence structures are defined by a spatial distribution of phase functions for each harmonic. Principles of designing a phase function to achieve the desirable distribution of turbulence scales, and two-point correlations, are outlined by considering the example of Uniform Isotropic Turbulence. One application of this method, presented in this work, is the mathematical modeling of ultrasonic cross-correlation flow measurement. Results predicted by the proposed mathematical model show good agreement with experimental data.

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Keywords

Synthetic turbulence, Turbulence model, Ultrasonic flow measurement, Cross-correlation flow meter, Non-intrusive flow measurement

Citation

Gurevich, A., Goman, M., Gurevich, Y.G. and Lopez, A.M. (2017) Synthetic Turbulence Modeling for Evaluation of Ultrasonic Cross-Correlation Flow Measurement. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation,

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Research Institute