Estimation of time since death by heat-flow Finite-Element model. Part I: Method, model, calibration and validation

Legal Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Mall, Gita ^a,b   Eisenmenger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Postmortem cooling; Time since death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DEATH; ENERGY YIELD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT LOSS; IRRADIATION; PARAMETER; RADIATION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BODY TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8844225592     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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