Bubbles in the sensing line of nuclear power plant pressure transmitters: the shift of spectrum resonances

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-334

  Barbero, Javier ^a   Blázquez, Juan ^b   Vela, Oscar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PRESSURE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSORS; NOISE SIGNAL POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PRESSURE TRANSMITTERS;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0343390468     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00236-3     Document Type: Article

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