Effect of small branch inclination on gas-liquid flow separation in T junctions

AIChE Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 465-474

  Ottens, Marcel ^a,b   Hoefsloot, Huub C J ^a   Hamersma, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

BERNOULLI EQUATION; MECHANICAL ENERGY BALANCE EQUATION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; JUNCTION; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; ENERGY BALANCE; FLOW KINETICS; GAS FLOW; GAS TRANSPORT; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PHASE TRANSITION; STEADY STATE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 0033103297     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690450304     Document Type: Article

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