Droplet breakage in stirred dispersions. breakage functions from experimental drop-size distributions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1377-1391

  Sathyagal, A N ^a   Ramkrishna, D ^a   Narsimhan, G ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKAGE; DISPERSIONS; DROPLETS; STIRRED;

CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

BREAKAGE FUNCTIONS; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STIRRED DISPERSIONS; TRANSIENT SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 0030131187     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(95)00311-8     Document Type: Article

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