Wavy-to-Slug Flow Transition in Slightly Inclined Gas-Liquid Pipe Flow

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 901-909

  Grolman, Eric ^a,b   Commandeur, Niels C J ^a   De Baat, Eduard C ^a   Fortuin, Jan M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSITION FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

STRATIFIED WAVY TO INTERMITTENT FLOW PATTERN TRANSITION;

PIPE FLOW;

INCLINED; PIPE FLOW; SLUG FLOW; TWO-PHASE FLOW(GAS/LIQUID;

EID: 0030111611     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420402     Document Type: Article

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