A visual description of the convective flow field around the head of a human

Journal of Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-31

  Ozcan O ^a   Meyer, K E ^b   Melikov, A K ^b  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Free and Forced Convection; PIV; Streamline Topology; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650908074     PISSN: 13438875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03181599     Document Type: Article

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