The spinning pipe gas lens revisited

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 104, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 260-264

  Mafusire, C ^a,b   Forbes, A ^a,b   Snedden, G ^a   Michaelis, M M ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LASER; PIPE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 55549117171     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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