Walter Fritz (physicist)

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Walter Fritz (* 1902 ; † 1983 ) was a German physicist and government councilor.

Fritz was an employee of Max Jakob . From 1927 he worked in Department III of the PTR , where he was to set up the two laboratories for heating and cooling technology as well as viscometry and mineral oil testing devices. Around 1929 he moved to Niederschöneweide . At the successor Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig , he headed the heat department until 1967 .

Work

  • General overview of the behavior of the thermal and thermal conductivity of coal.
  • Basics of heat transfer when evaporating liquids
  • Flow forms behind sharp-edged drag bodies
  • The theoretical fundamentals of heat generation in high frequency and electric arc furnaces; 1951
  • with Wolf Weber: About the size of the Hagenbach- Couette correction and the influence of surface tension in the Ubbelohde viscometer; 1963
  • U-tube method: for cold testing of mineral oils

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