• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.2678-2689
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• 1995

In this study, a new hot-wire anemometer which has greater sensitivity than that of a constant temperature anemometer (CTA) was proposed. In contrast to CTA, the wire working resistance of the new anemometer increases with flow velocity, that is, the operating mode of the wire becomes variable temperature. The variable temperature anemometer(VTA) was made by substituting a voltage controlled variable resistor such as photoconductive cell or transistor for one of the resistors in the bridge. By positively feeding back the bridge top signal to the input side of these electronic components, the wire overheat ratio could be increased with velocity automatically. Static response analyses of the VTA, constant voltage anemometer (CVA) and CTA were made in detail and calibration experiments were performed to validate the proposed operating principle. The wire operating resistance of the CVA decreases with velocity and this leads to lower sensitivity than that of a CTA. But the sensitivity of the newly proposed VTA is superior to that of a CTA, since the wire overheat ratio increases with velocity. Consequently, it is found that the major factor that is responsible for large sensitivity of a VTA is not the working resistance itself but the change of the wire working resistance with velocity.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.99-104
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• 2000

Calibration equation for Variable Temperature Anemometer(VTA) has been tested for measured velocity-output data and the calibration process has been compared with that of Constant Temperature Anemometer(CTA). VTA has greater sensitivity than that of any other conventional anemometers, but to be more popular technique in flow field measurement, simple, accurate and well established calibration process should be suggested. To meet this purpose, similar calibration method used for CTA has been adopted for VTA and finally calibration equation for VTA including the effect of temperature drift has been proposed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1201-1208
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• 2001

Variable temperature anemometer(VTA) has greater sensitivity than a conventional constant temperature anemometer(CTA). In order to design a reliable VTA system, however, an elaborate photoconductive cell stabilizing circuit which plays a key role in setting wire-overheat ratio should be firstly developed. In this study, a stabilizing circuit which adopts proportional-integral analog controller was proposed and thoroughly tested for its accuracy and reproducibility. In contrast to the available circuit suggested by Takagi, the present circuit has characteristic that the resistance of a photoconductive cell increases with the increase of input voltage, which makes the current circuit very suitable for the design of VTA. Finally, VTA adopting stabilizing circuit was made and the enhanced sensitivity of the VTA was validated experimentally by comparing the calibration curves of VTA and CTA.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.190-195
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• 2000

The paper presents the constant temperature digital hot-film anemometer that measures easily a wind velocity at the indoor. The output is linearized using microprocessor and analog-to-digital converter, because the fourth root of the wind velocity is the output voltage of the sensor. The comparison result between fabricated and reference anemometer is less than ${\pm}2%$. In the range of air temperature of $23^{\circ}C{\sim}60^{\circ}C$, the error is about ${\pm}1%$ in wind velocity 10m/sec.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.779-786
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• 1986

Hot-wire anemometer with constant temperature hot-wire anemometer bridge, linearizer, D.C. stabilization electric power source and square-wave generater has been constructed for trial and the test has been carried out. As a result the test showed the overall frequency response of 6KHz over the change of air flow and the noise of approximately 1cm/s in an air flow of 10m/s. The accuracy of the lienarizer stands comparison with the existing anemometer and turned out to be relatively good operational characteristics.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.62-75
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• 1991

The purpose of this study is to perform modelings and experiments to measure air flow rate using hot-wires and a CTA(Constant Temperature Anemometer). The flow rate can be obtained by measuring the heat loss of the hot-wire due to the variations of flow velocity when the hot-wire is maintained at uniform temperature. But the defect of this method is that the output signal changes not only by the flow rate but also by the ambient temperature. Thus, in the present study, a method which compensates the variations of the ambient temperature has been introduced to measure exact flow rate. To be more specific, the bridge circuit of the usual hot-wire anemometer system has been modified in such a way that a temperature resistance sensor and a variable resistance are placed in one of the legs to compensate the different temperature coefficients of both the hot-wire and the temperature compensating resistance for flow velocity or for flow mass up to the flow temperature of 50 .deg.C. Comparing the modeling and experimental results, it has been shown that the compensating point differs as the flow rate varies. Therefore, optimum compensation points are sought to construct the circuit. The present modeling and experimental results may be applied to the design of actual air flow meters for automobiles.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2012

This paper describes a measuring apparatus that can be used to appraise the effectiveness of nanofluids as new heat-transfer-enhancing fluids. A couple of apparatuses using fine hot wires as sensors have been proposed for this purpose; however, they have a technical weakness related to the uncertain working conditions of the sensor. The present method uses the convective heat transfer coefficient from a hot wire as an indication of the heat transfer effectiveness of the nanofluid, where the temperature of the wire remains constant during the experiment. The operating principle and experimental procedure are explained in detail, and the validity of the system is tested with pure base fluids. The effects of particle concentration, velocity, and temperature on the heat transfer coefficients of the nanofluids are discussed comprehensively using the experimental data for graphite nanolubrication oil.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.320-328
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• 1981

Experimental study of a round. free air jet is accomplished using a crossed hot wire probe with a constant temperature hot wire anemometer. Mean velocity Profiles, Reynolds stresses, tubulent intensities, velocity probability densities and correlation functions are measured in the down tream region. These values are calculated and averaged inthe correlation and probability analyzer. The reults are interpreted by the output of te dual beam oscilloscope.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1253-1261
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• 1993

Numerical analysis and measurements of the velocity and temperature distributions in buoyancy assisting laminar mixed convection flow over a vertically located, two-dimensional backward-facing step are reported. Laser-Doppler Velocimeter and Constant Temperature Anemometer operated in constant current were used to measure simultaneously the velocity and temperature distributions in the recirculation region downstream of the step. The reattachment length was measured by using flow visualization technique for different inlet velocities, wall temperatures and step heights. While the reattachment length $X_r$ increases as the inlet velocity or step height increase, it decreases as the buoyancy force increases, causing the size of the recirculation region to decrease. For the experimental range of $Gr_s$/$Re_{s}^{2}$$\times$$10^3$<17, a correlation equation for the reattachment length can be given by $X_{r}=1.05(2.13+0.021 Re_{s})exp$ $(-33.7_s^{-0.186}/Gr_{s}/Re_{s}^2).$ The Nusselt number is found to increase and the location of its maximum value moves closer to the step as the buoyancy force increases. The location of the maximum Nusselt number occurs downstream of the reattachment point, and distance between the reattachment point and the location of the maximum Nusselt mumber increases as the buoyancy force increases. Computational prediction agrees favorably well with measured results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.8-15
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• 2001

In the continuing quest for increased turbomachinery efficiency, the part played by blade profile shape remains crucial. The application of a heated thin metallic film with CTA(constant temperature anemometer) to the measurements of the laminar and turbulent boundary layer behavior(shock-boundary layer-interaction) in a transonic wind tunnel. Results of measurements with hot-film sensors on transonic compressor blades are extremely difficult to interpret because of ambiguous probe signals due to the complexity of the local flow pattern. In order to get the explicit information and give the designer to interpret characteristic signals from hot-film probes, a method was developed by comparing the results with other measuring technic results.