A novel thermal sensor concept for flow direction and flow velocity

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1224-1234

  Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Direction sensor; Flow sensor; Heat transfer; Sensor array; Thermal sensor

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION SENSORS; FLOW SENSORS; SENSOR ARRAYS; THERMAL SENSORS;

FLOW CONTROL; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; THERMOANALYSIS;

SENSORS;

EID: 29144467696     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.858924     Document Type: Article

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