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Design and Testing of an Automated System Using Thermochromatic Liquid Crystals to Determine Local Heat Transfer Coefficients for an Impinging Jet

Design and Testing of an Automated System Using Thermochromatic Liquid Crystals to Determine Local Heat Transfer Coefficients for an Impinging Jet

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral Education

ISBN10: 128891024X
ISBN13: 9781288910243
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Mar 12 2013
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Using thermochromatic liquid crystal to measure surface temperature, an automated transient method with time-varying free-stream temperature is developed to determine local heat transfer coefficients. By allowing the free-stream temperature to vary with time, the need for complicated mechanical components to achieve a step temperature change is eliminated, and by using the thermochromatic liquid crystals as temperature indicators, the labor intensive task of installing many thermocouples is omitted. Bias associated with human perception of the transition of the thermochromatic liquid crystal is eliminated by using a high speed digital camera and a computer. The method is validated by comparisons with results obtained by the steady-state method for a circular Jet impinging on a flat plate. Several factors affecting the accuracy of the method are evaluated.

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