Development of a functional relationship between port pressures and flow properties for the calibration and application of multihole probes to highly three-dimensional flows

It is common in the calibration of multihole probes to curve-fit the calibration data in order to determine a relationship between measured port pressures and flow properties. The parameters used in these techniques typically lack a theoretical background. In this article, a functional relationship is developed, based on theoretical considerations, that relates the port pressure directly to the flow properties and details a procedure that enables flow properties to be determined from the measured pressures of the multihole probe. The method is simple, easy to implement and provides a better understanding of the multihole probe operation in a three-dimensional flow.