Experimental Study of the Criteria of Flow Laminarization in Two-Dimensional Dense Gas Plumes

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 281-309

  Ding, Jianfeng ^a   Pal Arya, S ^b   Snyder, William H ^c  

^a SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense gas dispersion; Flow laminarization; Laminar and turbulent flows; Reynolds number; Richardson number; Turbulence intermittency; Visualization of flow; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041326766     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013155604116     Document Type: Article

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