The European Mechanics Colloquium, Euromech 132, was held at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon from 2 to 4 July 1980. Specific areas of hot-wire or hot-film anemometry were presented and discussed, more especially the effect of the finite time constant of the wire supports, the use of yawed hot wires in supersonic flows, the possible improvement of vorticity meters, and multi-point measurements of wall-shear-stress fluctuations. Other subjects described during the meeting included a new technique for concentration measurements in flames, developments and new uses of digitization and conditional sampling, pattern recognition analysis of fluid flow from multi-point, multi-time velocity measurements, and new turbulence measurements in complex flows and in fluid-flow machinery.An exhibition of hot-wire and hot-film anemometers and associated equipment was held during the colloquium.
Experimental investigation of the boundary layer transition on the prismatic blade using infrared thermography