Friction factor directly from roughness measurements

Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-130

  Sletfjerding, Elling ^a   Gudmundsson, Jon Steinar ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Friction Factor; Natural Gas; Pressure Drop; Turbulent Flow; Wall Roughness

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; GAS DYNAMICS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

WALL ROUGHNESS;

PIPELINES;

EID: 10644222703     PISSN: 01950738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1576264     Document Type: Article

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