Module 3: Velocity Measurement
  Lecture 16: Validation of PIV with HWA
 

The velocity referred here is the effective fluid velocity (at normal incidence to the wire). Further, is the normalized voltage defined as

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Where is the output of wire measured at zero velocity of fluid and measured at maximum velocity of fluid The function given above can closely match the calibration data, but its nonlinearity is a source of computational complexity.

The parameters A,B,C,D and E are obtained by means of an iterative least square error approach as follows. For any calibration point Equation 10 will produce an error given by

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