Capacitance Planar Array Sensor for Fast Multiphase Flow Imaging

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 533-540

  Thiele, Sebastian ^a   Silva, Marco Jose Da ^a   Hampel, Uwe ^a  

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

Author keywords

Flow visualization; interdigital electrodes; multi phase flow; permittivity measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008025066     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2015008     Document Type: Article

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