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Accession Number:
ADA167872
Title:
Applications of Infrared Thermography in Convective Heat Transfer.
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis,
Corporate Author:
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Report Date:
1986-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
69.0
Abstract:
A full-scale model of a double-wedge, simulating a jet vane used in guided missile thrust vector control TVC, was constructed for subsonic wind tunnel testing to evaluate the feasibility of using a thermal imaging infrared system vice thermocouples to determine a surface heat transfer coefficient. The model was preheated, then allowed to cool via forced convection to ambient conditions. Surface temperature readings were taken using thermocouples and a thermal imaging system during the cooldown process. These readings were then reduced to solve for a heat transfer coefficient h, using Newtons Law of Cooling. The results were compared with the theoretical solution for a flat plate and with the results obtained by testing an actual TVC vane configuration under the identical flow conditions. Theses
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE