Wall shear stress measurement in a turbulent pipe flow using ultrasound Doppler velocimetry |
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Authors: | M Nowak |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Chemical Engineering, Chair of Energy Process Engineering and Fluid Mechanics, University of Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany, |
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Abstract: | A turbulent boundary layer of a water flow is investigated by means of pulsed ultrasound Doppler velocimetry. The advantage of this method is the acquisition of complete velocity profiles along the sound propagation line within very short time intervals. The shear stress velocity, used for normalizing the velocity profiles, was determined by fitting the profiles to the universal profiles in a turbulent boundary layer obtained from Prandtl's mixing length theory. A coordinate transformation in the near-wall region is proposed to allocate the velocity data to "true" wall distances. From the experimental values of the wall shear stress velocity, the friction factors for a turbulent pipe flow are calculated and compared to the Blasius law. The overall error in measurement was estimated to NJ.4%. |
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