Influence of elevated pressure on the stability of bubbly flows

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 1997, Pages 3733-3739

  Letzel, H M ^a,b   Schouten, J C ^a   Van Den Bleek, C M ^a   Krishna, R ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubble column; Chaos analysis; Elevated pressure; Flow regime transition; Pressure sensing; Stability

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHAOS THEORY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; TRANSITION FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

BATCHELOR STABILITY THEORY; BUBBLE SWARM VELOCITY; GAS HOLDUP; LAMMERS-BIESHEUVEL STABILITY THEORY;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; FLOW; PRESSURE EFFECT; STABILITY;

BUBBLES; FLUID FLOW; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STABILITY;

EID: 0031279930     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00219-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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