Ultrasonic density measurement cell design and simulation of non-ideal effects

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 302-309

  Higuti, Ricardo Tokio ^a   Buiochi, Flávio ^b   Adamowski, Júlio Cezar ^b   de Espinosa, Francisco Montero ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Density; Liquids; Measurement cell; Model

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ADHESIVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; IMPREGNATION; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIZING; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION LINES; MATRIX OPERATIONS; MEASUREMENT CELL; NON-IDEAL EFFECTS;

ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33745514067     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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