Numerical study on gas and liquid slugs for Taylor flow in a T-junction microchannel

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 7609-7625

  Qian, Dongying ^a   Lawal, Adeniyi ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamics; Microchannel; Multiphase flow; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

MICROCHANNELS; SLUG FLOW; T-JUNCTIONS;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751043409     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.08.073     Document Type: Article

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