Experimental feasibility study of a thermoelectric heat flux gage
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to determine the feasibility of using a commercially available thermoelectric device as a heat flux gage at near ambient conditions. In certain research applications, the thermoelectric heat flux gage can provide a relatively simple means to model a warm fluid cold wall convection environment. The experiment showed that heat flux through the gage could be correlated within 2.5 percent with a simple algebraic equation which considered the thermoelectric current through the device and the hot and cold side temperatures.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983STIN...8315602V
- Keywords:
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- Heat Flux;
- Semiconductor Devices;
- Temperature Measuring Instruments;
- Thermoelectricity;
- Calibrating;
- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Feasibility Analysis;
- Wall Temperature;
- Instrumentation and Photography