An efficient method for the prediction of the motion of individual bubbles

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-357

  Emans, M ^a   Zenger, Ch ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bubbly flow; Gas volume fraction; Multiphase flow; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744513625     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: 10290257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618560500067224     Document Type: Article

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