Widyariset
Vol 3, No 1 (2017): Widyariset

REYNOLDS NUMBER ESTIMATION OF ROTAMETER BASED ON K-EPSILON MODEL

Bahrudin Bahrudin (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
Hilman Syaeful Alam (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2017

Abstract

Measurement of fluid flow with the aid of a floating element (rotameter) is a simple method used to measure the velocity of the fluid with a better degree of accuracy. However, there is still a tendency for turbulence flow around the floating element (annular area) due to narrowing of the flow area and the geometry shape of the floating element that can reduce the level of the rotameter accuracy. Single phase turbulent flow through rotameter was estimated using k-epsilon turbulence model. Detailed study has been performed to investigate the influence of turbulence characteristics from the Reynolds Number ( ) as a benchmark for predicting the level of turbulence. The results showed that at the velocity of 800 l/h the level  is arounds 450, which show that the fluid flow on the rotameter categorized as turbulence

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Journal Info

Abbrev

widyariset

Publisher

Subject

Engineering

Description

Widyariset is a scientific journal which publishes the results of research and development, assessment and systematic thinking about science and technology. The writers of the scientific papers in this journal come from researchers/researcher candidates from various institutions' research and ...