The 16th Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Transonic and Supersonic Flow in Cascades and Turbomachines

CAMBRIDGE, UK – September 2002

Sessions

Optical Methods

Development of High-Frequency Instrumentation

Sensor Technology and Signal Processing

Performance Measurement

Development of High Frequency Instrumentation II

Heat Transfer and Cooling Effectiveness

Design and Validation of Test Facilities

 

 

Optical Methods

Paper 1-1

Optical Emission Tomography

P. Dunkley, M. Burnett, P. Bryanston-Cross, E. Moll & B. Timmerman, Optical Engineering Lab, University of Warwick.  J. Black, Strategic Research Center, Rolls-Royce Derby

 

Paper 1-2

Records of Unsteady Transonic Flow Past Blade Cascades by Means of Optical Methods

J. Ulrych, J. Benetka, Aeronautical Research and Test Institute, Prague.

P. Šafařík, Czech Technical University in Prague.

 

Paper 1-3

Reynolds Stress Measurement with a Single Component Laser Doppler Anemometer

R. D. Stieger, H. P. Hodson, Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

 

 

Development of High-Frequency Instrumentation

 

Paper 2-1

Dynamic Analysis of a Fast Response, Air-to-Fuel Equivalence Ratio Sensor

M. J. Brear, M. Jones, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia.

 

Paper 2-2

Withdrawn

 

Paper 2-3

Accuracy of Fast-Response Aerodynamic Probes in Unsteady Turbine Flows

R. J. Miller, Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and R. W. Ainsworth, Southwell Laboratory, University of Oxford Department of Engineering.

 

Paper 2-4

Precise & Rapid Unsteady Pressure Transducer Signal Processing Using a Transfer Function Modeling Technique

F. Rottmeier, A. Bölc, LTT-ISE-STI, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

Sensor Technology and Signal Processing

 

Paper 3-1

On The Use of Hot Film Sensors in the Investigation of Fluid Dynamic Phenomena in the Near Wall Region

P. C. Griffin, M. R. D. Davies, Stokes Research Institute, Mechanical & Aeronautical Eng. Dept., University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

 

Paper 3-2

A Probe for the Measurement of High-Temperature Gases

X. Yang, R. J. Miller, H P Hodson, Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

 

Paper 3-3

Experiences in the Application of Intermittency Detection Techniques to Hot-Film Signals in Transitional Boundary Layers

E. Canepa, M. Ubaldi, P. Zunino, Universita di Genova.

 

Paper 3-4

Tip Timing Techniques for Turbomachinery HCF Condition Monitoring

P. C. Ivey, K. R. Grant, C. Lawson, Cranfield University.

 

 

Performance Measurement

 

Paper 4-1

Performance Measurements in a Transient Turbine Test Facility- Preliminary Instrumentation Development

N. R. Atkins, R. W. Ainsworth, S. J. Thorpe, Department. of Engineering Science University of Oxford.

 

Paper 4-2

Determination of the Mass Flow in a Compression Tube Turbine Test Rig

L. Porreca and R. Dénos,  von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department, Chaussée de Waterloo, 72, 1640 Rhode Saint Genèse, Belgium.

 

Paper 4-3

Determination of the Efficiency of a Cooled Turbine Stage Tested in a Compression Tube Facility

L. Porreca and R. Dénos,  von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department, Chaussée de Waterloo, 72, 1640 Rhode Saint Genèse, Belgium.

 

 

Development of High Frequency Instrumentation II

 

Paper 5-1

Introducing the New Virtual Four Sensor Fast Response Aerodynamic Probe (FRAP Ò)

A. Pfau, J. Schlienger, A. I. Kalfas, R. S. Abhari, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich, Switzerland.

 

Paper 5-2

High Frequency Effects in Unsteady Entropy Measurements

S. J. Payne, University of Oxford.

 

Paper 5-3

Measuring 3D Flow with a Single Pressure Transducer

J. Schlienger, A. Pfau, A.I. Kalfas, R.S. Abhari, Laboratory for Turbomachinery, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Paper 5-4

Pressure measurements at a nozzle guide vane edge using embedded fibre optic sensors

M J Gander, W N Macpherson, J S Barton, R L Reuben, J D C Jones, Heriot-Watt University, K S Chana, S J Anderson Qinetiq, Pyestock, R Stevens, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. T V Jones, University of Oxford.

 

 

Heat Transfer and Cooling Effectiveness

 

Paper 6-1

Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) and Transient Liquid Crystal Technique (TLC) for Measurements of Film Cooling Performances

G. Wagner, EPFL, Lausanne.

 

Paper 6-2

Data Reduction and Thermal Product Determination for Single and Multi-Layer Thin-Film Gauges

N. Billiard, V. Iliopoulou, F. Ferrara, R. Dénos, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery & Propulsion Department, Chaussée de Waterloo, 72, 1640 Rhode Saint Genèse.

 

Paper 6-3

Experimental Technique for Evaluation of Heat Transfer Coefficients with a Thermocamera in a Plexiglas Model

P. M. Magnusson, J. Hylén, ALSTOM Power Sweden AB,Dep. of Research & Development,S-612 82 Finspong.

 

Paper 6-4

Heat Transfer Measurements on a Sidewall and Blade Surface of a Large Scale NGV with Leakage Flow

A. Dannhauer, German Aerospace Center, DLR.

 

 

Design and Validation of Test Facilities

 

Paper 7-1

A New Turbine Cascade for Aero-mechanical Testing

D. M. Vogt, T. H. Fransson, The Royal Institute of Technology, Chair of Heat and Power Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Paper 7-2

Reliability of Low-Speed vs High Speed Testing of LP Turbine Blade Wake Interaction

M. Vera, H. P. Hodson, Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

 

Paper 7-3

A New Test Facility for Investigating Fluid-Structure Interactions Using a Generic Model

D. Allegret-Bourdon, D. M. Vogt, T. H. Fransson, The Royal Institute of Technology, Chair of Heat and Power Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.