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Measurement of gas flow velocity: anemometer with a vibrating hot wire.
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PMID:  20113123     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
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I propose a new method to measure velocity of a gas flow, which utilizes the time derivative of the voltage observed on a vibrating hot-wire sensor. The wire vibrates with an amplitude a and a frequency f, and is kept perpendicular to the gas flow direction in the plane containing the flow velocity vector v(g). When the parameters of vibrations are tuned, the number of zeros per vibration period of the hot-wire voltage function changes. I demonstrate that at the point of change, the unknown gas velocity is directly expressed by the parameters of vibrations v(g)=2pifa. Therefore, the velocity can be measured without any prior calibration of the hot-wire speed-voltage curve and the method can be used for gases of slowly changing temperature or composition.
Authors:
Jan Kie?basa
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Review of scientific instruments     Volume:  81     ISSN:  1089-7623     ISO Abbreviation:  Rev Sci Instrum     Publication Date:  2010 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-02-01     Completed Date:  2010-04-12     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0405571     Medline TA:  Rev Sci Instrum     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  015101     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Strata Mechanics Research Institute, Reymonta 27, 30-059 Krak?w, Poland.
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