Evaluation of Drop Size Distribution from Chord Length Measurements

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 931-939

  Hu, Bin ^a,b   Angeli, Panagiota ^a   Matar, Omar K ^b   Lawrence, Christopher J ^b   Hewitt, Geoffrey F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chord length distribution; Dispersed flow; Drop size distribution; Measurement; Two phase

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSORS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CHORD LENGTH DISTRIBUTION (CLD); DISPERSED FLOW; DROP SIZE; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (DSD);

DISPERSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSORS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33645576722     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10714     Document Type: Review

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