We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
An experimental investigation of the free jet flow from a radially lobed nozzle using hotwire anemometry.
- Authors
Amini, Noushin; Sekaran, Aarthi; Schwaenen, Markus; Vijaykumar, Anand; Ranjan, Devesh
- Abstract
Turbulence is a ubiquitous and important phenomenon in fluid mechanics and is also seen as a challenging topic of study in graduate education. In order for students to truly understand the physics of fluid flow and to use this knowledge to evaluate flow conditions, learning about the different measurement techniques employed for this purpose is essential. With this in mind, a graduate-level course in turbulence measurement techniques was introduced at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University around 20 years ago. The idea was to expand undergraduate students' knowledge of instrumentation and merge it with concepts in fluid mechanics, to ensure that students have a chance to follow the theoretical and practical aspects of flow measurement. The course was recently revamped to incorporate a project that allows students to work with one of the measurement methods discussed in class - hot-wire anemometry (HWA). Different post-processing techniques and turbulence analysis methods are discussed in class and implemented in the project. The present paper reviews a project carried out by one group of graduate students and discusses its impact on their learning. The paper presents details of the project, including the design of the experiment, methodology and analysis of data (the raw data are available on the website of the corresponding author and can be used as a teaching aid for related courses).
- Subjects
TURBULENCE; FLUID mechanics; GRADUATE education; PHYSICS; HOT-wire anemometer; WEBSITES
- Publication
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 4, p261
- ISSN
0306-4190
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/IJMEE.40.4.1