Characterization of air-water two-phase vertical flow by using electrical resistance imaging

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-41

  Wu, Yingxiang ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Wang, Mi ^b   Williams, Richard A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERT; Flow regime recognition; Gas liquid two phase vertical flow; Velocity measurement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTERIZATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AIR-WATER TWO-PHASE VERTICAL FLOW; FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; TOMOGRAPHY SENSORS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 18644367575     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450830107     Document Type: Article

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