A model for predicting axial mixing during gas-liquid Taylor flow in microchannels at low Bodenstein numbers

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 391-396

  Salman, Wael ^a   Gavriilidis, Asterios ^a   Angeli, Panagiota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial mixing; Low Bodenstein number; Taylor flow; Two phase

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AXIAL MASS TRANSFER; TAYLOR FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW;

GAS-LIQUID MIXING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 2542422014     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2003.10.027     Document Type: Article

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