A pulse-expansion wave tube for nucleation studies at high pressures

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 54-63

  Looijmans, K N H ^a,b   Van Dongen, M E H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIXTURES; NUCLEATION; REFLECTION; SHOCK WAVES; SUPERSATURATION;

PULSE EXPANSION WAVE TUBE;

SHOCK TUBES;

EID: 0031146809     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003480050086     Document Type: Article

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