A novel needle probe based on high-speed complex permittivity measurements for investigation of dynamic fluid flows

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1249-1256

  Da Silva, Marco Jose ^a   Schleicher, Eckhard ^a   Hampel, Uwe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex permittivity measurement; Concentration measurement; Heterogeneous mixture; Multicomponent flow; Multiphase flow; Needle probe

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; MULTICOMPONENT FLOW; NEEDLE PROBE;

MIXTURES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NEEDLES; PROBES;

PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34547916391     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.900419     Document Type: Article

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