A Trigger Circuit for a Hot-Wire-Anemometer Aerosol Detector

Abstract

This report describes a cathode-coupled multivibrator which was designed and used in conjunction with a standard constant temperature anemometer (CTA) to measure local aerosol concentrations in turbulent impaction wind-tunnel experiments. The circuit acts like an electronic switch to actuate an electronic frequency counter each time a relatively cool aerosol particle impacts on a standard heating filament of the CTA and serves to prevent erroneous multiple counts from a single droplet.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030814

Entities

People

  • William A. Cooper

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Laboratories
  • Detectors
  • Electronic Switches
  • Fluid Flow
  • Hot Wire
  • Hot Wire Anemometers
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Time Intervals
  • Trigger Circuits
  • Turbulent Flow
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems