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A new calibration technique has been developed for the simultaneous measurement of the instantaneous velocity components in a three dimensional turbulent flow field by miniature pyramidoidal four-wire probes. The method was tested in the boundary layer of a wind tunnel by comparison measurements with X-wire probes. The results are very satisfactory and in good agreement with other experiments known from the literature.
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Lemonis, G., Dracos, T. A new calibration and data reduction method for turbulence measurement by multihotwire probes. Experiments in Fluids 18, 319–328 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00211387
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00211387