Water slug detachment in two-phase hydrophobic microchannel flows

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, 2005

Volumn PART A, Issue , 2005, Pages 709-715

  Hidrovo, Carlos H ^a   Wang, Fu Min ^a   Steinbrenner, Julie E ^a   Lee, Eon Soo ^a   Vigneron, Sébastien ^a   Cheng, Ching Hsiang ^a   Eaton, John K ^a   Goodson, Kenneth E ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Droplet detachment; Fuel cells; Microchannels; Slug detachment; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FUEL CELLS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; SAMPLING; SILICON; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

DROPLET DETACHMENT; MICROCHANNELS; SLUG DETACHMENT; U-SHAPED CHANNELS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 27744438356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/icmm2005-75261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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