A note on pressure drop for the cross-flow of power-law liquids and air/power law liquid mixtures past a bundle of circular rods

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1365-1372

  Malleswara Rao, T V ^a   Chhabra, R P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Bundle of rods; Friction factor; Lockhart Martinelli parameter; Power law liquids; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

LAMINAR FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; SOLUTIONS; STEADY FLOW;

POWER-LAW LIQUIDS;

MIXTURES;

CROSSFLOW; POWER LAW FLUID; PRESSURE DROP; ROD; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0037381012     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00527-4     Document Type: Article

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