The role of water content in triboelectric charging of wind-blown sand

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gu, Zhaolin ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Su, Junwei ^a   Yu, Chuck Wah ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b International Society of the Built Environment ISBE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; POWDER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84902331490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01337     Document Type: Article

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