Numerical simulations of two-phase flows in micro gas/liquid mixing sections

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 11227-11252

  Tatineni, Mahidhar ^a,b,c   Zhong, Xiaolin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MIXING; MIXTURES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SURFACE TENSION;

ADVECTION; BUBBLE GENERATION; MICROCHANNEL;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 30744467431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-1392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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