A capacitance sensor for the characterization of microgravity two-phase liquid-gas flows

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 965-975

  Lowe, Devin ^a   Rezkallah, Kamiel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacitance sensor; Microgravity; Two phase flow; Void fraction

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CONCAVE PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITANCE SENSORS; VOID FRACTION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; GRAVITY; SENSOR;

EID: 0032740076     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/10/10/317     Document Type: Article

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