Calibrating a Smooth Contraction Flowmeter

Mass conservation can be used to calibrate a smooth contraction as a flowmeter. The experiment uses a control volume, or CV, formulation. A control volume is a simplified region used to study the macroscopic effect of flow on an engineering system.

This approach focuses on the main mass exchange ...

Conservation of mass is a well-known physical principle that is used together with the control volume approach for engineering of many mechanical systems. Control volume analysis of mass conservation is particularly useful to estimate flow rates for large-scale hydraulic structures, such as dams, water treatment plants, or water distribution sys...