S Große and W Schröder 2008 Meas. Sci. Technol. 19 015403 doi:10.1088/0957-0233/19/1/015403
S Große and W Schröder
Show affiliationsA new sensor to measure the mean turbulent wall-shear stress in turbulent flows is described. The wall-shear stress sensor MPS3 has been tested in a well-defined fully developed turbulent pipe flow at Reynolds numbers Reb based on the bulk velocity Ub and the pipe diameter D in the range of Reb = 10 000–20 000. The results demonstrate a convincing agreement of the mean wall-shear stress obtained with the new sensor technique with analytical and experimental results from the literature. The sensor device consists of a flexible micro-pillar that extends from the wall into the viscous sublayer. Bending due to the exerting fluid forces, the pillar-tip deflection serves as a measure for the local wall-shear stress. The sensor concept, calibration techniques, the achievable accuracy and error estimates, the fields of application and the sensor limits will be discussed. Furthermore, a first estimate of the pillar dynamic response will be derived showing the potential of the sensor to also measure the turbulent fluctuating wall-shear stress.
47.80.-v Instrumentation and measurement methods in fluid dynamics
07.07.Df Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.); remote sensing
Issue 1 (January 2008)
Received 11 July 2007, in final form 11 October 2007
Published 30 November 2007
S Große and W Schröder 2008 Meas. Sci. Technol. 19 015403
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