The work reports extensive experimental campaigns involving the first ever L-shaped Pitot tube measurements in non-ideal subsonic and supersonic flows of siloxane MM vapor, a fluid commonly employed in high-temperature Organic Rankine Cycles for renewable energy applications.
Testing was carried out on the Test-Rig for Organic Vapors (TROVA) at Politecnico di Milano, a unique blow-down wind tunnel at CREA lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory between the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology and the Energy Department.
The paper can be freely accessed at: https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1633108/1633108.pdf