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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
13-1
13.1 Introduction
is chapter deals with fundamentals of thermal methods for sensing and measuring mass uid ows.
e ow can be dened as the motion of a continuum (uid) in a closed structure (channel, orice), and
it is th
e
me
asured
ob
ject
. e as
sociated
ph
ysical
qu
antity
se
nsed
is th
e
ma
ss
u
x
th
at
o
ws
th
rough
a
un
it
c
ross
s
ection
. 
e
e
quation
f
or
t
he
v
olume
ow
r
ate
Φ
v
is given by
Φ
v
= =
dV
dt
vA
(13.1)
where
V is the volume through in the time t
v is the average velocity over the cross-sectional area A of the channel
with the relation between the volume V, mass M, and the density of uid ρ
V
M
=
ρ
(13.2)
13
Thermal Sensors: Flow
13.1 Introduc ...
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