Flow control and spray cloud dynamics from hydraulic atomizers

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 539-546

  Giles, D Ken ^a   Andersen, Per Gummer ^b   Nilars, Mikkel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hardi International A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Deposit; Drift; Droplet; Spray; Variable rate

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZERS; DEPOSITION; KINETIC ENERGY; NOZZLES; PESTICIDES; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

ASYMPTOTIC MODELS;

HYDRAULICS;

ATOMIZATION; DROPLET; SPRAY;

DROPLET; SPRAY;

EID: 0036590349     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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