Appraisal of a hot-wire temperature compensation technique for velocity measurements in non-isothermal flows

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3097-3102

  Ball, S J ^a   Ashforth Frost, S ^a   Jambunathan, K ^a   Whitney, C F ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b European Gas Turbines Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC WIRE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HOT WIRE TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE; NONISOTHERMAL FLOWS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ACQUISITION; HOT WIRE PROBE; TURBULENCE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0345425048     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(98)00371-8     Document Type: Article

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