Experimental study of freely falling thin disks: Transition from planar zigzag to spiral

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zhong, Hongjie ^a   Chen, Shiyi ^a   Lee, Cunbiao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

FLOW REGIMES; MOMENT OF INERTIA; MOVING OBJECTS; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; THIN DISK; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TRANSITIONAL STATE;

RHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79551526498     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3541844     Document Type: Article

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