A novel technique to identify flow patterns during liquid - Liquid two-phase upflow through a vertical pipe

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2381-2393

  Jana, Arun Kumar ^a   Das, Gargi ^a   Das, Prasanta Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; FLOW PATTERNS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTODIODES; PIPE FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANNULAR FLOW; FLOW PATTERN MAPS; LIQUID-LIQUID TWO-PHASE UPFLOW; TWO-PHASE MIXTURES;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

CHAOS THEORY; FLOW PATTERNS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTODIODES; PIPE FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33646425323     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie051257e     Document Type: Article

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