A development program has demonstrated that hot-wire anemometry can be used successfully on an aircraft in flight to make measurements of wake vortices produced by another aircraft. The probe, whose wires were made of platinum/rhodium, 10 microns in diameter, provides unambiguous results for inflow angles less than about 35 deg. off the probe axis. The high frequency response capability of the hot-wire system allows detailed measurement of the flow structure, and the study of aircraft hazards associated with wake turbulence.
Hot-wire anemometry for in-flight measurement of aircraft wake vortices
1977-04-01
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Commercial aircraft wake vortices
Online Contents | 2002
|Investigations of tip vortices with the triple hot-wire anemometry
Tema Archive | 1995
|Investigations of tip vortices with the triple hot-wire anemometry.
Online Contents | 1995
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