Simulation of Airflow Through a Test Chamber

A computational-simulation study of the flow of air through a thermo-anemometer chamber was performed to resolve what originally seemed to be an anomaly in the measurement data obtained by use of the chamber. The thermo-anemometer chamber is a test chamber used to measure the rate of generation of heat by a device placed within it. In the original application that produced the apparent anomaly that prompted this study, the chamber was used to measure the power dissipation (as manifested by heating) in an operating power-supply inductor. The apparent anomaly was that the heating of the inductor as calculated from the measurements made by use of the chamber seemed unrealistically high.