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A Theoretical Calibration Curve for the Preston Tube on Smooth Boundaries for Larger Reynolds Numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

N. Rajaratnam
N. Rajaratnam*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
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Of the Several Methods available for the measurement of boundary shear, the simplest is perhaps the Preston tube. It is a total head tube resting on the boundary for which the difference between the dynamic pressure on the tube and the static pressure on the boundary is correlated with the boundary shear. It was evolved by Preston in 1954 mainly from similarity considerations and the existence of the wall law. In 1955, Hsu obtained Preston's original calibration curve theoretically for the one-seventh power law. In this note, a theoretical calibration curve is developed for the logarithmic law which describes the velocity distribution for larger Reynolds Numbers.

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Technical Notes
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 650 , February 1965 , pp. 136 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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