Modeling of water wetting in oil-water pipe flow

NACE Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cai, Jiyong ^a   Nesic, Srdjan ^a   De Waard, Cornelis ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CorCon Consultancy ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critical velocity; Modeling; Oil water flows; Three layer model; Water entrainment; Water wetting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646225794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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