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A note on the sensitivity to yaw of a hot-wire anemometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

C. A. G. Webster
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester

Abstract

It is often supposed that the mean velocity indicated by a yawed hot-wire anemometer is the component of the stream velocity normal to the wire. Experiments have been performed which show that a better approximation is obtained by taking the velocity as the resultant of the normal component of the mean stream and 0.2 times the component parallel to the wire.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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