Optical Particle Sizing: Theory and Practice

Edited by Gouesbet, Gerard and Grehan, Gerard

ISBN 10: 0306427818 / ISBN 13: 9780306427817

Published by Plenum Press, New York, 1988

About this Item

Proceedings of an international symposium held May 12-15, 1987, in Rouen, France. With numerous figures, diagrams, and formulae. Faint cover edgewear. Small area of sticker-removal scarring at lower spine. Library marks: spine label remnant; library inkstamp and pencil notations to title page; library inkstamp and bar code sticker on rear endpaper.Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Optical Particle Sizing: Theory and Practice
• Publisher: Plenum Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306427818
• ISBN 13: 9780306427817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Ex-Library First Edition
• Condition: Very Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Optical particle s1z1ng is undoubtedly a fascinating field of research of the utmost practical importance. In the Universe fluids are nearly everywhere, and when they occur they almost invariably contain particles. Inside our bodies we can take the example of blood transporting a vi tal procession of red and white cells. Around us, we can find various particles in the air we breathe, bubbles in the champagne or the soda we drink, or natural and artificial (polluting!) particles in the lakes we swim in. Industrial processes and systems are also concerned with particles, from pulverized coal flames to fluidized beds, in a range of applications involving rocket exhausts, pneuma tic transport and more generally the infinite realm of mul tiphase situations. Such an obviously vast field would require a whole volume like this one merely to attempt to describe it superficially. To be sure, we would need a scientific Prevert to catalogue such an endless inventory. Finally, even outside our terrestrial spaceship particles can be detected in alien atmospheres or between stars. Theorists will enjoy analyzing the richness of light/particle interact. ion, a subject which is very far from being exhausted. Experimental researchers will love designing and studying various probing instruments with a laser source at the input and a computer at the output, two requisites of today' s technological revolution.