The measurement
system includes a vibration
transducer (10) and measurement
system electronics (20), which are electrically coupled to the
transducer (10) for controlling the
transducer and for evaluating the
vibration measurement signals (s1, s2) provided by the transducer. The
exciter assembly includes a
vibration exciter (31) designed to convert electrical power having a time-varying current into mechanical power such that a time-varying driving force acts on the tube at a drive point formed by the
vibration exciter on the tube mechanically connected to the
vibration exciter, wherein the vibration
exciter (31) is positioned and designed such that the drive offset (ΔE) between the drive cross-sectional area of the tube surrounded by an imaginary circumference of the tube intersecting the drive point and a predefined reference cross-sectional area of the tube, i.e., a
minimum distance not greater than 3° mm of the
tube length and / or less than 0.5% of the
tube length, and wherein the vibration node of the vibration motion formed between two antinodes of the vibration motion of at least one of the second-order or higher-order vibration
modes (deviating from the first-order vibration mode) of the tube is located within the reference cross-sectional area. The measurement
system electronics (20) are designed to feed electrical power to the vibration
exciter (31) via an
electrical drive signal (e1) having a time-varying current, causing the tube to perform forced
mechanical vibration with one or more vibration frequencies specified by the drive
signal (e1), wherein the measurement system
electronics provide the drive
signal (e1) with a (AC) frequency (f eN1 ) or (AC) frequency (f eN2 The sinusoidal (useful) current components (eN1, eN2) make the (AC) frequency (f) eN1 The resonant frequency (f) of the
pipe's naturally inherent odd-order vibration
modes. 2n+1 Deviation and (AC) frequency (f) eN2 The resonant frequency (f) of the even-order vibration mode inherent in the tube. 2n+2 The deviation is less than 1% and / or less than 1 Hz, and the measured value of at least one flow parameter of the measurement material guided in the transducer is determined based on the corresponding useful signal component (s1N1; s2N1; s1N2; s2N2) of at least one of the
vibration measurement signals (s1, s2).