Flooding in vertical counter-current annular flow

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-105

  Karimi, G ^a   Kawaji, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHASE INTERFACES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANNULAR FLOW; FLOODING PHENOMENON; LIQUID FILMS;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 0034247260     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00331-3     Document Type: Article

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