Liquid recirculation and bubble breakup beneath ventilated gas cavities in downward pipe flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 56, Issue 21-22, 2001, Pages 6399-6409

  Thorpe, R B ^a   Evans, G M ^b   Zhang, K ^c   Machniewski, P M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF COAL CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aeration; Bubbles; Fluid mechanics; Multiphase flow; Ventilated cavities; Vertical slug flow

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BUBBLE COLUMNS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PIPE FLOW; POTENTIAL FLOW;

GAS CAVITIES;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

AERATION; FLOW FIELD; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; PIPE FLOW; PREDICTION MODEL; SLUG FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 0035941377     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(01)00309-8     Document Type: Article

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