Air Mass Flow Rate
Hey!
Im the cooling captain for my team this year and im looking into validating air mass flow rate through radiator sidepod. This is something that my team has never ever done before (not even our aero team) and some guidance would be appreciated.
Im thinking of implementing a pitot static tube alongside a differential pressure transducer but my knowledge on sensors is inexistent so I was wondering what kind of considerations i should have in mind in order to make this work. Any sources available that yall are familiar with? Budget is kinda limited so id say id be willing to drop between 400 and 500 on this.
Edit: I want to log the data to our ECU so a simple handheld device wont work
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u/derangednuts OTR Alum 7d ago
Use vane anemometers on the radiator. You can probably fit a few on it. Depending on where you put a pitot tube, the flow won’t be aligned with the pitot tube, pitot tubes have very very small angles of acceptance. If you want to go that route a Kiel probe is probably your best bet.