Air-damping effects on developing velocity profiles in flowing soap films

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3975-3982

  Huang, M J ^a   Wen, C Y ^b   Lee, I C ^a   Tsai, C H ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; DIFFUSION; GRAVITATION; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY;

GRAVITY FORCE; SOAP-FILM TUNNELS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOWS; VERTICAL WIRE FRAMES;

TUNNELS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 8844250905     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1802131     Document Type: Article

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