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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2014.38.12.983

Development of Thermocouple Sensor for Thermal Boundary Layer Measurement  

Seo, Jongbeom (Dept. of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ. of Science and Technology)
Han, S. (Dept. of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ. of Science and Technology)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.38, no.12, 2014 , pp. 983-990 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research focused on designing an appropriate thermocouple sensor for a thermal boundary layer with a large temperature gradient. It was designed to minimize the conduction error from a constant temperature wall in a boundary layer. A $79.9-{\mu}m$ thermocouple was chosen, and a five-axis device jig was developed to fabricate a butt-welded thermocouple, which is different from arc-welded junction thermocouples. This was used to minimize the size of the thermocouple junction. In addition to fabricating butt-welded thermocouples, a thorough calibration was conducted to decrease the internal error of a multimeter to ensure that the data from the butt-welded and regular thermocouples were almost the same. Based on this method, a butt-welded thermocouple with a small junction was found to be suitable for measuring the temperature in a thermal boundary layer with very large thermal gradients. Using this thermal boundary layer probe, the thermal boundary layers in a turbine cascade were measured, and the Nusselt numbers were obtained for the turbine endwall.
Keywords
Thermocouple; Thermal Boundary Layer; Nusselt Number;
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