Alleviating unsteady-state flow headaches: Watch out for water hammer, surges and cavitation

Chemical Engineering

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 96-126

  Fay, Terrence ^a   Loiterman, Harold ^a  

^a Lockwood Greene Engineers/CI   (United States)

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EID: 18844452948     PISSN: 00092460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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