Visco-inertial absorption in dilute suspensions of irregular particles

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2037, 2003, Pages 2153-2167

  Richards, S D ^a   Leighton, T G ^b   Brown, N R ^b,c  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Absorption; Acoustics; Marine sediment; Suspension; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; DILUTION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 1542297595     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1126     Document Type: Article

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