Signal processing and analysis applied to powder behavior in a rotating drum

Particle and Particle Systems Characterization

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 191-196

  Crowder, Timothy M ^a   Sethuraman, Vasu ^a   Fields, Thomas B ^b   Hickey, Anthony J ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSI Inc Particle Instruments/A   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF SOLIDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GRANULAR FLOW;

POWDERS;

EID: 0032596037     PISSN: 09340866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4117(199908)16:4<191::AID-PPSC191>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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