The current work is the first in a series of investigations to develop a method for high-temperature thermometry of gaseous flows using thermocouple pairs with disparate convective properties to infer the contribution of radiation. Two thermocouples of deliberately dissimilar bead geometry are placed side-by-side in a flow while the two beads are heated by surface radiation. Their dissimilar responses to radiation cause a predictable divergence between the two temperature measurements. The current approach improves upon others found in literature owing to its in-situ measurement for convection coefficients rather than dependence on empirical estimation. Each bead is deliberately overheated, and the time constant of the thermal decay back to equilibrium indicates the intensity of convection. Here, we perform this measurement in air while varying velocity, duration of overheat, and intensity of overheat. We compare the calculated temperature correction against the known air temperature. Heat transfer through the probe wires to the ceramic probe support was found to have a strong effect on the correction, although corrected values were always closer to the actual gas temperature than the original uncorrected value. In conditions of mild radiation loading, the effect was sufficiently symmetric between the two beads to allow effective correction. All measurements indicated that if additional information about the probe body temperature was collected in addition to the thermocouple measurements, the correction could be improved significantly.
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