Improving falling ball tests for viscosity determination

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 157-163

  Feng, Shihai ^a   Graham, Alan L ^a   Reardon, Patrick T ^a   Abbotti, James ^b   Mondy, Lisa ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALLING-BALL METHOD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; VISCOSITY;

FLUIDS;

EID: 33645686605     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2137345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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