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Experimental Investigation of Secondary Flow Structures Downstream of a Model Type IV Stent Failure in a 180° Curved Artery Test Section
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Experimental Investigation of Secondary Flow Structures Downstream of a Model Type IV Stent Failure in a 180° Curved Artery Test Section

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Statistics of intense turbulent vorticity events

L Moriconi1

  • 1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, C.P. 68528, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-21945-970, Brazil.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|September 28, 2004
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