Micro-scale flow pattern classification based on the k-means clustering algorithm

ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ICNMM2010

Volumn , Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 1619-1627

  Sempértegui, Daniel ^a   Ribastki, Gherhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CROSSINGS; FLOW BOILING; HIGH-SPEED CAMERA IMAGE; INPUT FEATURES; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; K-MEANS CLUSTERING METHOD; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; MASS VELOCITY; MICRO-SCALES; OBJECTIVE METHODS; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TWO-PHASE FLOW PATTERNS; VAPOR QUALITY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; MICROCHANNELS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84856014988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FEDSM-ICNMM2010-30217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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