Hot-Wire Anemometer

hot-wire anemometer

[′hät ¦wīr ‚an·ə′mäm·əd·ər] (engineering) An anemometer used in research on air turbulence and boundary layers; the resistance of an electrically heated fine wire placed in a gas stream is altered by cooling by an amount which depends on the fluid velocity.

Hot-Wire Anemometer

an instrument for measuring liquid or gas flow velocities of at least 0.1 m/sec. The operation of the instrument is based on the relationship between the flow velocity v and the heat emission of a thin wire placed in the flow and heated by an electric current.

The main part of a hot-wire anemometer is a Wheatstone bridge, with a sensitive nickel, tungsten, or plastinum wire 3–12 mm long and 0.005–0.15 mm in diameter connected to one arm of the bridge and mounted on thin conductive pins. The quantity of heat imparted by the hot wire to the flow of liquid or gas depends on the physical characteristics of the moving medium and the geometry and orientation of the wire. The sensitivity of the instrument increases with increasing wire temperatures.

Because of their rapid action and high sensitivity, accuracy, and compactness, hot-wire anemometers are commonly used in the study of unsteady motions and boundary-layer flows near walls. They are used to determine the direction of flow (two-wire and three-wire anemometers) and, more generally, to determine the turbulence of airflows. They are also used for probing flows both under ordinary pressures and at great rarefactions.

REFERENCES

Gorlin, S. M., and I. I. Slezinger. Aeromekhanicheskie izmereniia. Moscow, 1964.
Popov, S. G. Izmerenie vozdushnykh potokov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1947.

hot-wire anemometer

An anemometer which measures the velocity of airflow by the effect of the airflow on the temperature of a wire resistor which is connected to an electrical circuit.

单词	hot-wire anemometer
释义	hot-wire anemometer hot-wire anemometer n. An anemometer consisting of an exposed wire through which electric current is passed and whose temperature is measured. The amount of power necessary to keep the wire at constant temperature given loss of heat via convection with the moving fluid serves as a measure of the fluid's velocity. Also called thermal anemometer. Hot-Wire Anemometer hot-wire anemometer [′hät ¦wīr ‚an·ə′mäm·əd·ər] (engineering) An anemometer used in research on air turbulence and boundary layers; the resistance of an electrically heated fine wire placed in a gas stream is altered by cooling by an amount which depends on the fluid velocity. Hot-Wire Anemometer an instrument for measuring liquid or gas flow velocities of at least 0.1 m/sec. The operation of the instrument is based on the relationship between the flow velocity v and the heat emission of a thin wire placed in the flow and heated by an electric current. The main part of a hot-wire anemometer is a Wheatstone bridge, with a sensitive nickel, tungsten, or plastinum wire 3–12 mm long and 0.005–0.15 mm in diameter connected to one arm of the bridge and mounted on thin conductive pins. The quantity of heat imparted by the hot wire to the flow of liquid or gas depends on the physical characteristics of the moving medium and the geometry and orientation of the wire. The sensitivity of the instrument increases with increasing wire temperatures. Because of their rapid action and high sensitivity, accuracy, and compactness, hot-wire anemometers are commonly used in the study of unsteady motions and boundary-layer flows near walls. They are used to determine the direction of flow (two-wire and three-wire anemometers) and, more generally, to determine the turbulence of airflows. They are also used for probing flows both under ordinary pressures and at great rarefactions. REFERENCES Gorlin, S. M., and I. I. Slezinger. Aeromekhanicheskie izmereniia. Moscow, 1964. Popov, S. G. Izmerenie vozdushnykh potokov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1947. hot-wire anemometer An anemometer which measures the velocity of airflow by the effect of the airflow on the temperature of a wire resistor which is connected to an electrical circuit.
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