MIA 509 - Experimental Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow

Course Objectives

• Understanding the behavior of measuring signals and systems.
• Understanding the importance of error and uncertainty estimation in experimental research.
• Understanding the basic principles of experimental modeling of heat-flow phenomena.
• To be able to ppply basic measurement techniques in the experimental investigation of heat-flow phenomena.
• Learning to methods for visualizing heat-flow events.

Course Description

Based on the basic principles of heat transfer and fluid mechanics, this course provides information on measurement techniques used in laboratory and application studies. In addition to knowledge for data collection, evaluation and presentation, this course covers many well-known advanced experimental methods and engineering applications such as basic temperature, pressure, velocity measurements, Thermographic Liquid Crystal (TLC), Infrared Thermography (IR), Hot Wire and Cold Wire Anemometry and Particle Image Velocity (PIV)