An experimental investigation of the flowfield and dust resuspension due to idealized human walking

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 0811041-0811046

  Kubota, Yoshihiro ^a   Hall, Joseph W ^b   Higuchi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH VELOCITY; HUMAN FOOT; HUMAN WALKING; PARTICLE FLOW; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PARTICLE LEVITATION; PARTICLE RESUSPENSIONS; RE-SUSPENSION; RING VORTEX; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; UPWARD MOTION; WALL JET;

FLOORS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 77955289257     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3176962     Document Type: Article

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