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    UE18ME321 Unit1 CLASS 8 Subsonic Wind Tunnel

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    The document discusses methods for measuring air speed, including the use of a Pitot tube. It explains that a Pitot tube measures total pressure while a static pressure port measures only ambient pressure, and the difference can be used to calculate flow velocity. It also provides equations to calculate air speed, temperature, pressure, density, and Mach number for subsonic compressible flow. Diagrams are included showing examples of Pitot tube and static port arrangements on surfaces in a flow.

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    UE18ME321 Unit1 CLASS 8 Subsonic Wind Tunnel

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    The document discusses methods for measuring air speed, including the use of a Pitot tube. It explains that a Pitot tube measures total pressure while a static pressure port measures only ambient pressure, and the difference can be used to calculate flow velocity. It also provides equations to calculate air speed, temperature, pressure, density, and Mach number for subsonic compressible flow. Diagrams are included showing examples of Pitot tube and static port arrangements on surfaces in a flow.

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    The document discusses methods for measuring air speed, including the use of a Pitot tube. It explains that a Pitot tube measures total pressure while a static pressure port measures only ambient pressure, and the difference can be used to calculate flow velocity. It also provides equations to calculate air speed, temperature, pressure, density, and Mach number for subsonic compressible flow. Diagrams are included showing examples of Pitot tube and static port arrangements on surfaces in a flow.

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    UE18ME321 Unit1 CLASS 8 Subsonic Wind Tunnel

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    Measurement of air speed:

    Fig: Sketch of a Pitot tube

    1
    p V12  p0 .....(31)
    2
    2( p0  p )
    V1  ....(32)

    2( p0  p )
    Vtrue  ....(33)

    2( p0  p )
    Ve  ....(34)
    s
    Measurement of air speed:

    We have

    Fig: Closed test section

    Fig: Open test section

    Consider the arrangement shown . Here we have a uniform flow with velocity V1
    moving over a fl at surface parallel to the fl ow. There is a small
    hole in the surface at point A , called a static pressure orifi ce . Because the
    surface is parallel to the fl ow, only the random motion of the gas molecules will
    be felt by the surface itself. In other words, the surface pressure is indeed the
    static pressure p . This will be the pressure at the orifice at point A . In contrast,
    the Pitot tube at point B.

    Subsonic Compressible flow:


    We have
    R
    cp  ...(36)
     1
    V12
    c pT1   c PT0
    2
    T0 V2
     1  1 ....(37)
    T1 2c pT1
    T0   1V12
     1 .....(38)
    T1 2RT1
    a12  RT1
    T0   1V12
     1 .....(39)
    T1 2a12
    T0  1 2
     1 M 1 ....(40)
    T1 2


    p0   1   1
     1  M 12  ...( 41)
    p1  2 
    1
    0   1   1
     1  M 12  ....( 42)
    1  2 
     1
     
    2  p0   ....( 43)
    M 2
        1
    1
      1  p1  

     

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