Estimation of the flow rate of free falling granular particles using a Poisson model in time

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-41

  Grift, T E ^a   Crespi, C M ^b  

^a University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; GAME THEORY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; QUEUEING THEORY; SENSORS; STANDARDS; TELEPHONE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

APPLICATIONS.; ARRIVAL PROCESS; CHARACTERISATION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DATA-SETS; DEFOCUS; EXTREME VALUES; FERTILISER; FLOW DENSITY; FLOW OF PARTICLES; GENERIC METHODS; GRANULAR PARTICLES; HELP DESK; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INHERENT ERRORS; MEAN FLOWS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTICAL-; PNEUMATIC PLANTERS; POISSON MODELS; POISSON PROCESSES; SPHERICAL PARTICLES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TELEPHONE CALLS; TIME INTERVALS;

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EID: 50049104718     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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