Modelling the behaviour of stratified liquid natural gas in storage tanks: A study of the rollover phenomenon

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1875-1884

  Bates, S ^a,b   Morrison, D S ^a,c  

^a British Gas Exploration and Production   (United Kingdom)

^b Edinburgh Petroleum Services   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE TANKS; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ROLLOVER PHENOMENON; STORAGE TANKS; STRATIFIED LIQUID NATURAL GAS;

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS;

L.N.G.; STORAGE TANKS;

EID: 0031149449     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(96)00218-9     Document Type: Article

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