The problem of fluid-dynamics in semicircular canal

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 517-526

  Xu, Mingyu ^a   Tan, Wenchang ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Fluid dynamics; Frequency response; Impulse response; Non standard inverse Laplace transform; Semicircular canal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011580967     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02897143     Document Type: Article

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