Chases and escapes by Paul J. Nahin

A Coriolis flowmeter is operated to generate accurate output material flow information over a wide temperature range that includes cryogenic temperatures. Heretofore, temperature compensation was provided using linear expressions that erroneously assumed the value of Young's Modulus E varied linearly with temperature. This resulted in unacceptable output information errors. The Coriolis flowmeter of the present invention uses non-linear compensation information stored in memory to generate accurate non-linear temperature compensated material flow output information at all temperatures including cryogenic temperatures. In one embodiment, the stored non-linear information represents measured values of Young's Modulus E that are used to generate accurate temperature compensated material flow output information. In another embodiment, the measured values of Young's Modulus E are curve fitted to derive non-linear expressions that are stored for use in generating the accurate non-linear temperature compensated output information.