Czech Metrology Institute
The Czech Metrology Institute (CMI) is a governmental organisation with long experience in technical and legal questions in liquid flow measurement. Using its gravimetric and volumetric flow standards CMI offers calibrations and verifications of all types of flow-meters in a wide range of flow-rates for various kinds of fluids.
Mr Jan Gersl (research worker at the Department of flow and heat) thinks the results of the MeDD-project will have impact in real life situations: “...and it potentially can improve quality of life for people who depend on permanent medication”. He explains: “Metrology for drug delivery is an interesting and important topic and at the same time it gives us the opportunity to work together with other institutes and to learn in the fields of micro and nano flow and in the field of computational fluid dynamics.”
CMI will contribute to the project mainly by supporting other project partners in their developments: “Our company helps other participants by means of computer simulations of flow and heat transfer in physical situations that occur in their standards. E.g. we make a simulation of temperature distribution and temperature evolution in the flow standard of VSL, based on thermal expansion of a fluid. Or we simulate an interaction of a pipe with weighing systems in case of DTI. We use OpenFoam software for the simulations. The biggest challenge is to obtain realistic predictions with sufficient accuracy from the numerical model.”
