Last week I talked about how to move yourself and your imager
into the best position to get good thermal data. Another big
part of being successful is understanding and following
professional thermography standards. Like a good time-tested
recipe, these help us get high quality, consistent results. As
I’ve said before, I’ve made plenty of mistakes [...] We’ve spent
the past several weeks discussing heat transfer. Radiation is a
special mode of transfer because that is the mode by which
energy is transferred from surfaces to our imagers. All of what
we see in the thermal image is nearly always based on the amount
of radiation emitted from or reflected by the surface. [...] As
we continue the discussion about convective heat transfer, it is
useful to define two types of convection, natural and forced.
When quantities of fluids are moved in either way, we also use
the term “bulk energy transfer” because it is really the
movement of the fluid itself, and the energy inherent in it,
that [...] As thermography profe