Hydraulic flow behaviour through an in-line emitter labyrinth using CFD techniques

ASAE Annual International Meeting 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3127-3135

  Palau Salvador, G ^a   Arviza Valverde, J ^a   Bralts, V F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Emission Uniformity; Emitter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDRAULICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EMISSION UNIFORMITY; EMITTERS;

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS;

EID: 30044444478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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