A model of liquid level measurements

Resumo

A model of measuring the level of a viscous incompressible liquid in a tank as based on the liquid level in a measuring tube is investigated. The tank is in the field of gravity, and the tank liquid level varies according to some law. As a result, a Dirichlet boundary value problem for a nonlinear integrodifferential equation of parabolic type is obtained. A global existence and uniqueness theorem is proved for a weak solution of the problem. In the case of a tank level decreasing linearly with time, it is shown numerically that the liquid level in the measuring tube oscillates with a decaying amplitude with respect to the tank level.