An experimental investigation of pulsatile flow through a smooth constriction

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-318

  Ahmed, Saad A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SAMPLING; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONTOURED CONSTRICTION; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING METHODS; POSTSTENOTIC FLOW DISTURBANCES; STENOSES;

PULSATILE FLOW;

ORIFICE FLOW; TURBULENCE;

PIPEFLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0032144713     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1777(98)00009-0     Document Type: Article

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