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Calum Blair
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I am doing a lab report and it is to do with compressible flow through rotameters. An upstream and downstream rotameter to measure flow rate with a needle valve between the two. The needle valve acts as a fixed orifice in one part of the experiment. Then the inlet pressure is altered.
Plotting pressure against mass flow rate yields a graph where above 13psig the flow is sonic and it follows a straight line. However at subsonic speeds it no longer follows a curve. I am struggling to explain why this is the case?
Any ideas?
Plotting pressure against mass flow rate yields a graph where above 13psig the flow is sonic and it follows a straight line. However at subsonic speeds it no longer follows a curve. I am struggling to explain why this is the case?
Any ideas?