The split of vertical two-phase flow at a small diameter T-junction

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6261-6272

  Mak, C Y ^a   Omebere Iyari, N K ^a   Azzopardi, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Gas liquid; Instrumentation; Multiphase flow; Scale up; T junction

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PROBES;

GAS-LIQUID; INSTRUMENTATION; SCALE-UP; T-JUNCTION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PROBES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33746969111     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.05.039     Document Type: Article

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