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Effects of Wire Length in Turbulence Investigations with a Hot-Wire Anemometer*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

F. N. Frenkiel
F. N. Frenkiel*
Affiliation:
Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University
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Summary

The paper discusses the influence of wire length on the characteristics of a turbulent flow as measured with a hot-wire anemometer. Most of the mathematical treatment can be directly applied to other problems of length correction, such as may occur, for instance, in problems of astrophysical turbulence, as well as to some problems related to measurements of random processes. The discussion will, however, use the example of a hot-wire anemometer with particular attention to the influence of the length of the wire on the measurement of the intensity of turbulence, correlation coefficients, and scale and microscale of turbulence.

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Research Article
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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , May 1954 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1954

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Footnotes

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Some of the results given here were included in the United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory Memorandum 9658 (1948) distributed to a limited number of readers.

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