Slug length prediction in near horizontal gas-liquid intermittent flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2009-2018

  Cook, Martin ^a   Behnia, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gas liquid flow; Intermittent flow; Slug collapse; Slug flow; Slug length

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW; PIPELINES; RANDOM PROCESSES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBULENT FLOW;

INTERMITTENT FLOW; SLUG FLOW;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; SLUG FLOW;

EID: 0034711938     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00485-6     Document Type: Article

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