A generalized gas-liquid-solid three-phase flow analysis for airlift pump design

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 995-1002

  Margaris, D P ^a   Papanikas, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

AIRLIFT PUMP DESIGN; THREE PHASE FLOWS;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 0031386413     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2819528     Document Type: Article

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