Velocity measurement techniques for liquid metal flows

Fluid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 80, Issue , 2007, Pages 275-294

  Eckert, Sven ^a   Cramer, Andreas ^a   Gerbeth, Gunter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 80053468505     PISSN: 09265112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4833-3_17     Document Type: Article

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