Gas - liquid two-phase flow in narrow horizontal annuli

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-80

  Ekberg, N P ^a   Ghiaasiaan, S M ^a   Abdel Khalik, S I ^a   Yoda, M ^a   Jeter, S M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CORRELATION METHODS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRICTION; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; VELOCITY; WATER;

ANNULUS; FLOW REGIMES; MICROCHANNELS; VOID FRACTION; WALL FRICTION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0033344813     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00078-3     Document Type: Article

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