In his technical note in the January 1967 JOURNAL, Quarmby (pp 47-49) concludes that because he was able to predict the axial pressure gradient in a concentric smooth annulus by using Preston tubes to measure the inner and outer wall shear stress, then the Preston tubes are giving correct values for the wall shear stresses. I cannot agree that this is a valid conclusion to draw. A Preston tube can only give wall shear stress correctly if the dimensionless velocity in the wall region is the same as that for which the tube was calibrated.
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H.G. Lyall (1967) studied this question.
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