Surface Flow Visualization Using Encapsulated Thermal Tufts for
                    Steady Flow and a Dynamic Heat Transfer Measurement Technique for Unsteady
                    Flows

Baughn, J. W.; Ochoa, Angel; Smith, Jason S.; Byerley, Aaron R.

doi:10.1115/1.1811721

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“…Batchelder and Moffat [14] presented a different method of creating a heated spot by using electrically heated aluminium pins flush mounted in a carrier plate. Other techniques utilize the thermal wake of a spot that is colder than its surroundings [15][16][17][18]. Hunt and Pantoya [19,20] were the first to use the laser-thermal-tuft-technique as a quantitative tool by correlating the tuft length with the free-stream velocity.…”

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A wall shear stress measurement technique using the thermal wakes of small heated spots

Rudolph¹,

Reyer²,

Nitsche³

2009

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G:

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A new thermo-optical method for the measurement of wall shear stresses is presented. The technique exploits that the surface temperature field and the near wall flow are closely linked by correlating the thermal wakes of small heated spots with the wall shear stress. Numerical as well as experimental results are presented and different correlation and design parameters are examined. In contrast to recent works, where the thermal tuft length is used for a correlation with the wall shear stress, other parameters were found to be much better suited for a skin friction calibration. It is also shown that the new method has the unique capability to not only measure the magnitude of the wall shear stress but also its direction.

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