A calibration technique for multiple-sensor hot-wire probes and its application to vorticity measurements in the wake of a circular cylinder
✍ Scribed by B. Marasli; P. Nguyen; J. M. Wallace
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 764 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0723-4864
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✦ Synopsis
A calibration technique for multiple-sensor hot-wire probes is presented. The technique, which requires minimal information about the probe geometry, is tested using a four-sensor and a twelve-sensor probe. Two data reduction algorithms are introduced. The first one assumes a uniform velocity over the probe sensingvolume and is applied to the four-sensor probe measurements. The second one assumes a uniform velocity gradient over the sensing volume of the probe. The procedure, when applied to the twelvesensor probe, is shown to measure the velocity gradient components successfully. In both algorithms, the unknowns (velocity and velocity gradient components) are obtained by solving the resulting systems of nonlinear algebraic equations in a least-squares sense. The performances of the probes and the algorithms are tested with measurements in the wake of a circular cylinder. The statistics and spectra show that the twelve-sensor probe is successful in the simultaneous measurement of all three components of the velocity and all three components of the vorticity vectors.