Supercritical (and subcritical) fluid behavior and modeling: drops, streams, shear and mixing layers, jets and sprays

Progress in Energy and Combustion Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-366

  Bellan, J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; DROP FORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; JETS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING;

LEWIS NUMBER EXPRESSION; MICROGRAVITY DROP EXPERIMENTS; SUBCRITICAL FLUID; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID JET;

SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

EID: 0033705036     PISSN: 03601285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1285(00)00008-3     Document Type: Review

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