Measurement of the convective heat coefficients by the pulsed method—influence of the boundary-layer perturbation

We present here some elements in order to improve the non-destructive procedures for the measurement of the local heat transfer coefficient between a plate uniformly heated and an air-flow. We use the pulsed photothermal method which consists of analysing the transient temperature on the front face of a wall, initially subjected to a convective flow, after a sudden deposit of luminous energy. For the examination of the experimental thermograms, two models are used: in the first one the heat coefficient is assumed to remain constant during the pulsed experiment, and we take into account its variation in time in the second one. The temporal variation law of the heat transfer coefficient used in the second model is obtained by extension of the differential method to the unsteady laminar boundary-layer due to a finite duration excitation. We compare the results of the two models in transient state with those given in steady state by multi-layered heat flux sensor. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]