Portable planar DMA: Development and tests

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 251-260

  Steer, B ^a,b   Gorbunov, B ^a   Muir, R ^a   Ghimire, A ^c   Rowles, J ^a  

^a Canterbury Innovation Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Particle Measuring Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZERS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MONODISPERSE AEROSOLS; MULTI-PHYSICS NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PORTABLE INSTRUMENT; SIZING ACCURACY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

AEROSOL; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PLANAR DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZER; PORTABLE DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZER; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84893095111     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2013.868863     Document Type: Article

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