A two-dimensional mechanistic model for sand erosion prediction including particle impact characteristics

NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Yongli ^a   McLaury, Brenton S ^a   Shirazi, Siamack A ^a   Rybicki, Edmund F ^a  

^a The University of Tulsa   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion modeling; Particle tracking; Sand erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953032793     PISSN: 03614409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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