Development of Liquid Slug Length in Gas-Liquid Slug Flow along Horizontal Pipeline: Experiment and Simulation1 1 Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.50536020 and 50323001).

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 626-633

  WANG, Xin ^a   GUO, Liejin ^a   ZHANG, Ximin ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

liquid slug length; slug flow; slug tracking; two phase flow

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW; PROBES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

LIQUID SLUG LENGTH; SLUG FLOW; SLUG TRACKING;

GAS PIPELINES;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); GAS PIPELINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW; PROBES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33750690195     PISSN: 10049541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1004-9541(06)60125-0     Document Type: Article

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