Can Developments in Air–Water Flow Instrumentation Advance Hydraulic Design?
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 150, Issue 6
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Acknowledgments
The first author thanks his current and former colleagues from the UNSW Water Research Laboratory Dr. Laura Montano, Dr. Rui Li and Benjamin Modra for fruitful discussions. The authors of this manuscript are the Guest Editors for the Special Collection on “Recent Advances in the Observation of Air-water Flows.” To avoid any competing interest, the manuscript was handled by another editor.
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