Artificial Neural Netwworks Models for Identifying Flow Regimes and Predicting Liquid Holdup in Horizontal Multiphase Flow

Proceedings of the Middle East Oil Show

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 797-804

  Osman, El Sayed A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE DISTRIBUTION; SEGREGATED FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW PATTERNS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE DROP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 1642439223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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