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Thermal Flowmeter question?

I am currently building a thermal Flowmeter for a college project and i have hit a brick wall. My problem is that i have an output voltage coming from my flowmeter which is basically a wheatstone bridge with a thermistor. The temperature is kept at a current temperature and any flow will change the temperature and this is what i will measure. When the temperature changes there is a change in voltage and i have this voltage being fed into labview and being displayed. This voltage is related to the flow of the system and i was wondering is there some Labview program or VI available that will help in this conversion.

Please and thanks.
Regards Mgarvey
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Can you please make it clear what is the voltage you are getting and at normal temperature what is the Voltage that is at the output . So that thats helps me in making the Vi for you
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At room temperature (approximately 22 degrees celcius) The wheatstone bridge is balanced and the output voltage is .9mV (.0009V). It is a 10Kohm thermistor. Thanks a million
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It looks as though you have two conversions. The thermistor is a transducer which changes its resistance (non-linearly) with temperature. The bridge is a signal conditioner which converts that resistance to a voltage. Then your data acquisition system converts the voltage into a number.

What I think you are asking is for the further conversion of that number (representing volts, and indirectly resistance and temperature) to another number representing flow. I doubt you will find a LV program sitting around to do what you want because there are too many variables and complex relationships among them to do the conversion in any sort of universal manner. Things like the package style of the thermistor, whether the flow is laminar or turbulent, etc., play a role.

The thermistor data sheet should give some data about the thermal transfer rates at various flow rates. If it does not, you will need to make a series of calibration runs. Any system of this type will need to be calibrated after assembly because too many unknowns exist to design them all out.

Lynn
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