The decay of grid turbulence in polymer and surfactant solutions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2387-2393

  Van Doom, Eric ^a   White, Christopher M ^a   Sreenivasan, K R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLYMERS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV);

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0032620803     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870100     Document Type: Article

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