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A microscale low power high temperature gradient calorimetric (HTGC) sensor measuring both mean and fluctuating bidirectional wall shear stress is presented. The micromachined sensor is composed of three free-standing \(3\,\upmu \text {m}\times 1\) mm micro-wires mechanically supported using perpendicular micro-bridges. The static and dynamic characterisations were performed in a turbulent boundary layer wind tunnel on a flat plate configuration, and compared to the one obtained with a conventional hot-film probe. The results demonstrated that the calorimetric sensor behaves similarly to the hot-film in constant temperature anemometry with nonetheless lower power consumption and better spatial resolution and temporal response. Additionally, its calorimetric measurement detected the direction of the wall shear stress component orthogonal to the wires, corresponding to the shear stress sign in 2D flows. The calibrated HTGC micro-sensor was then used for unsteady flow separation detection downstream a 2D square rib for \(Re_h= 2.56\times 10^4\). The calorimetric micro-sensor enabled self-correlated measurements and consequently successfully achieved the detection of flow separation and the reattachment point around \(x/h=10.7\).
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This work is funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (Grant no. ANR-14-ASTR-0023-01) in the framework of the ANR ASTRID CAMELOTT project. It is supported by the regional platform CONTRAERO in the framework of the CPER ELSAT 2020 project and RENATECH, the French national nanofabrication network.
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Ghouila-Houri, C., Talbi, A., Viard, R. et al. Unsteady flows measurements using a calorimetric wall shear stress micro-sensor. Exp Fluids 60, 67 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-019-2714-5
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