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On the correction of hot wire turbulence measurements for spatial resolution errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. B. Roberts
J. B. Roberts*
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University of Sussex
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Hot wire anemometers have found widespread use in the measurement of turbulence for many years. Recently, considerable improvements in the signal to noise ratio of these instruments has facilitated measurements in the high wavenumber region of the energy spectrum, where the turbulent energy level is usually relatively low.

Of major concern in the measurement of very small scale turbulent fluctuations by the hot wire method is the error introduced by the spatial averaging effect of the wire. Clearly, for fluctuations with wavelengths of the same order of magnitude as the wire length, or less, the line integration of the wire results in measured amplitudes which deviate considerably from those which would be recorded by a probe of infinitely small size.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 77 , Issue 752 , August 1973 , pp. 406 - 412
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1973 

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