The effects of different working conditions and specifically of different velocity profiles on the output of a commercial cup anemometer were analysed experimentally. A simple mathematical model is also presented and provides results in line with the experiments. Results show that a cup anemometer with certain geometrical features can be calibrated through a rotating drag rig by correcting for the bias on the instrument output. The increase in uncertainty caused by this systematic correction was evaluated and applied to the results. The correction was validated by checking the compatibility of calibrations of a cup anemometer at the rotating rig and in a wind tunnel.

Cup anemometer calibration: effect of flow velocity distribution / Piccato, Aline; Spazzini, PIER GIORGIO; Malvano, R.. - In: METROLOGIA. - ISSN 0026-1394. - 48:5(2011), pp. 343-351. [10.1088/0026-1394/48/5/015]

Cup anemometer calibration: effect of flow velocity distribution

PICCATO, ALINE;SPAZZINI, PIER GIORGIO;
2011

Abstract

The effects of different working conditions and specifically of different velocity profiles on the output of a commercial cup anemometer were analysed experimentally. A simple mathematical model is also presented and provides results in line with the experiments. Results show that a cup anemometer with certain geometrical features can be calibrated through a rotating drag rig by correcting for the bias on the instrument output. The increase in uncertainty caused by this systematic correction was evaluated and applied to the results. The correction was validated by checking the compatibility of calibrations of a cup anemometer at the rotating rig and in a wind tunnel.
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