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Three-dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry for Turbulence Applications: Case of a Jet Flow
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Three-dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry for Turbulence Applications: Case of a Jet Flow

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Optical properties of a planar turbulent jet

I A Joia, R J Perkins, B J Uscinski

    Applied Optics
    |November 10, 2010
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