Abstract

Temperature measurements can be difficult to obtain across many different harsh environments such as engine combustion chambers, engine exhaust temperatures, and explosion fireballs. While there are alternate methods to measure fluid temperature such as laser measurements, acoustic measurements, and camera imaging techniques, these methods can often be expensive, difficult to implement, and not able to see within the environment. Thermocouples are popular sensors because they are cheap and easy to implement across a wide range of applications and can measure temperature in areas where other methods cannot reach or see. However, while these sensors are very popular and versatile, they do have some disadvantages, mainly, the response time. When the testing environment becomes harsh, the thermocouple size increases so that the sensor can survive. Unfortunately, when the thermocouple size increases, so does the time that it takes to sense the gas temperature. For this research, the environment will mimic an explosive environment with very fast temperature rise times that will require quick sensor response. This will not be achievable with a single thermocouple; so, multiple thermocouples will be used. This research focuses on evaluating past multi-thermocouple reconstruction techniques to determine which available method is the most accurate and feasible to implement. Of the methods researched, this work has found that a frequency domain method proposed by Forney and Fralick provides temperature estimates as accurate as 0.5% off the average steady state temperature with an average percent error of 5%.

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Graduation Date

2023

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Kinzel, Michael

Degree

Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (M.S.A.E.)

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Degree Program

Aerospace Engineering; Aerospace Engineering Online; Thermofluid Aerodynamic Systems Design and Engineering

Identifier

CFE0009487; DP0027488

URL

https://purls.library.ucf.edu/go/DP0027488

Language

English

Release Date

May 2023

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Location

UCF Online

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