Roger Baker has worked for many years in industrial flow measurement. He studied at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and has held posts at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Cranfield University, where he set up the Department of Fluid Engineering and Instrumentation. He has held visiting professorships at Cranfield University and the University of Warwick.
1. Introduction
2. Fluid mechanics essentials
3. Specification, selection and audit
4. Calibration
5. Orifice plate meters
6. Venturi meter and standard nozzles
7. Critical flow venturi nozzle
8. Other momentum-sensing meters
9. Positive displacement flowmeters
10. Turbine and related flowmeters
11. Vortex shedding, swirl and fluidic flowmeters
12. Electromagnetic flowmeters
13. Magnetic resonance flowmeters
14. Ultrasonic flowmeters
15. Acoustic and sonar flowmethods
16. Mass flow measurement using multiple sensors for single-phase flows 501
17. Multiphase flowmeters
18. Thermal flowmeters
19. Angular momentum devices
20. Coriolis flowmeters
21. Probes for local velocity measurement in liquids and gases
22. Verification in situ methods for checking calibration
23. Remote data access systems
24. Final considerations.
