COMPARISION OF FLOW ANALYSIS THROUGH A DIFFERENT GEOMETRY OF FLOWMETERS USING FLUENT SOFTWARE

T.Sridevi, Dhana Sekhar, V.Subrahmanyam

Abstract: Flow meter or orifice meter are widely used in industry for flow measurement. A pressure loss takes place in the pipe line due to the restriction present in it. An amount of pressure loss occurs due to the thickness, shape and diameter of the plate. In the present paper, fluent software was used to plot the characteristics of the flow and gambit software was used to design the 2D model. Two phase computational fluid dynamics calculations, using k-Epsilon model were employed. This simulation gives the values of pressure, velocity and turbulence contour at various sections in which water as a media. The flow analysis is done on various types of flow meters namely round plate, nozzle, short tube and borda type plates. The numerical results were validated against experimental data from the literature and were found to be good agreement.

Keywords: Gambit, Fluent, K-Epsilon model, restriction.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0308023