Features of automotive gas tank filler pipe two-phase flow: Experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 412-420

  Banerjee, R ^a   Isaac, K M ^a   Oliver, L ^b   Breig, W ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Technical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

STILL CAMERAS;

AUTOMOTIVE FUELS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE; PIPE FLOW; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0036525982     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1445439     Document Type: Article

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