Development and interactions of two inert gas bubbles during decompression

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 131-140

  Jiang, Y ^a   Homer, L D ^a   Thalmann, E D ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble evolution; Bubble interactions; Decompression

Indexed keywords

INERT GAS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMAN; PRESSURE; SURFACE TENSION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOBLE GASES; PRESSURE; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0030239198     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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