The effects of inlet geometry on gas-liquid two-phase flow in microchannels

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

Volumn PART A, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-76

  Kawaji, Masahiro ^a   Mori, Koji ^b   Bolintineanu, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLOW PATTERNS; FRICTION; MIXING; PRESSURE DROP; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LIQUID INJECTION; LIQUID INLET GEOMETRY; LIQUID MIXING; MICROCHANNEL DEVICES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 27744458343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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