Patent ID: 7212928

Claim:
A method of determining a pressure, the method comprising: measuring a pressure of a fluid flowing through a system; measuring a temperature of the flowing fluid; determining a density based on the pressure and the temperature; determining a velocity of the flowing fluid; determining a corrected pressure for the flowing fluid based on the pressure, the temperature, and the velocity, the corrected pressure corresponding to a density reflective of the velocity and a mass flow rate, and wherein determining the corrected pressure comprises using the following formula: P c ≅ P p ⁢ ⁢ s + 1 2 × k diff × ρ p ⁢ ⁢ s × V VOR 2 ; ⁢ and communicating the velocity or the mass flow rate of the flowing fluid to a controller, for at least one of controlling, processing, and later retrieval.