Computational simulation of air flows through a Sri Lankan wind-driven furnace

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 753-766

  Tabor, G R ^a   Molinari, D ^b   Juleff, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaeometallurgy; Computational fluid dynamics; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW;

EID: 15344345822     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2004.12.006     Document Type: Article

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