Research and development of an on-line instrument for measuring cooling air flow of car radiator

Author

Bian, Aiqi ; Wang, Xihan ; Shen, Yuming

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opt.-Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Shanghai for Sci. & Technol., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-19 Aug. 2009

Abstract

A new instrument for measuring cooling air flow of car radiator is introduced after analyzing existing instruments and methods, and the measuring principle and design method of new instrument is described in detail too. On-line measurement can be realized by the new instrument, and the information of cooling air flow distribution can also be got during the measuring process. In addition, the new instrument could recognize the wind direction well. The test results demonstrated that the instrument is reliable and the measurement accuracy is high, so the instrument is worth being spread and applied.

Keywords

aerodynamics; automotive components; computerised instrumentation; cooling; flow measurement; flow sensors; impellers; car engine cooling system; car radiator; cooling air flow measurement; impeller sensor; on-line measuring instrument; wind direction; Cooling; Electrical resistance measurement; Fluid flow measurement; Heat engines; Image motion analysis; Impellers; Instruments; Pulse measurements; Research and development; Water heating; car radiator; cooling air flow measuring; distribution; on-line; wind direction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement & Instruments, 2009. ICEMI '09. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3863-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3864-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2009.5274523

Filename

5274523