A numerical model of slug flow in vertical tubes

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 395-415

  Clarke, A ^a   Issa, R I ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FINITE VOLUME METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

SLUG FLOW; TAYLOR BUBBLES;

PIPE FLOW;

MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; PIPE FLOW; PIPES-VERTICAL; SLUG FLOW;

EID: 0031147880     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(96)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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