The role of surface tension in microgravity slug flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 695-700

  Taitel, Yehuda ^a   Witte, Larry ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CALCULATIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; MIXTURES; PRESSURE DROP; VISCOUS FLOW; WALL FLOW;

BUBBLE CAP; MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SLUG FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

SURFACE TENSION;

BUBBLES; MICROGRAVITY; SLUG FLOW; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0030088281     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(95)00320-7     Document Type: Article

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