Experimental investigation of the effect of surface tension and the correlation on void fraction and frictional pressure drop of an air-liquid two-phase flow in a horizontal flat capillary rectangular channel

International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 535-542

  Ide, Hideo ^a   Fukano, Tohru ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CAPILLARY FLOW; CORRELATION METHODS; FRICTION; GLYCEROL; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEPARATORS; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

FILM THICKNESS; VOID FRACTIONS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 1242333040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/icmm2003-1066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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