Rise velocity of an air bubble in porous media: Theoretical studies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Corapcioglu, M Yavuz ^a   Cihan, Abdullah ^a   Drazenovic, Mirna ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Air bubble; Bubbly flow; Discrete airflow; Granular media

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DATA REDUCTION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE TENSION;

AIR BUBBLES; RISE VELOCITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

AIRFLOW; BUBBLE VELOCITY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM;

AIR BUBBLE; AIRFLOW; GRANULAR MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 2442703226     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002618     Document Type: Article

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