Conduction based calibration of handmade platinum thin film heat transfer gauges for transient measurements

Abstract Heat transfer measurement using thin film gauges (TFG) is the most prevalently used technique for determination of surface heat flux. They are best suited for short duration transient surface temperature measurements and typically used in the applications where convection is a dominant mode of heat transfer such as gas turbine engines, high speed flights etc. However, in few interdisciplinary research areas, there are practical issues and difficulties in exposing the gauges for convection based measurements. These present investigations are aimed at exploring the possibility of using thin film gauges for short duration conduction based transient measurements with pure conduction mode of heat transfer. A simple calibration set-up has been used to supply known heat flux of different magnitudes to the thin film gauges that are fabricated in-house with platinum as sensing element and pyrex as an insulating substrate. Experimentally recorded temperature signals from the gauges are compared with simulated temperature histories obtained through finite element analysis. Convoluted integral of one-dimensional heat conduction equation is used to predict the surface heat flux and compared with input heat loads. The presently developed calibration setup is seen to be very useful for conduction based measurements of thin film gauges.

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