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Three-dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry for Turbulence Applications: Case of a Jet Flow
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Interferometric tomography for flow visualization of density fields in supersonic jets and convective flow

C Söller, R Wenskus, P Middendorf

    Applied Optics
    |October 2, 2010
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