LOW PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS IN A HYPERSONIC WIND TUNNEL.

Abstract

The experience of the past six years in the use of commercially available, variable-reluctance type pressure transducers is presented. The transducers are of the differential type with ranges of 2, 1, 0.5, 0.1, and 0.03 psid and used both at full range and 1/10 range for measuring pressures from 0.0005 to 2.0 psia. The transducers were used for single pressure measurements and combined with a selector valve for multiple pressure measurements, in both cases under various ambient conditions. Repeatability and hysteresis combined were within one per cent of full scale for 1/10 range calibrations. Response to a step function of pressure (from one model tap to the next) was the order of two minutes to a steady value when three feet of 0.047 ID tubing connected the model tap to the transducer. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0669083

Entities

People

  • Frank B. Kroeger

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Calibration
  • Hypersonic Wind Tunnels
  • Hysteresis
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Step Functions
  • Transducers
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow