Transient displacement of a Newtonian fluid by air in straight or suddenly constricted tubes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1973-1991

  Dimakopoulos, Yannis ^a   Tsamopoulos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INJECTION MOLDING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING;

NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

CYLINDER; DISPLACEMENT; NEWTONIAN FLUID; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUBE ARRAY;

EID: 0037753269     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1578634     Document Type: Article

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