Interfacial area transport and evaluation of source and sink terms for confined air-water bubbly flow

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-75

  Kim, Seungjin ^a   Sun, Xiaodong ^a   Ishii, Mamoru ^a   Beus, Stephen G ^b   Lincoln, F ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONFINED FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PHASE INTERFACES;

INTERFACIAL AREA TRANSPORT;

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037211835     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(02)00289-3     Document Type: Article

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