Comments on Flow characteristics of axial high speed impellers (Chem. Process Eng., 2010, 31, 661)

• Authors: Jyeshtharaj Joshi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Chemical and Process Engineering
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 311-315

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2012

online

5 - 7 - 2012

Contributors

author

Jyeshtharaj Joshi

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DOI

10.2478/v10176-012-0021-2