Explicit reformulation of the colebrook - White equation for turbulent flow friction factor calculation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2593-2600

  Sonnad, Jagadeesh R ^a   Goudar, Chetan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEBROOK WHITE (CW) EQUATION; EXPLICIT APPROXIMATIONS; FRICTION FACTOR;

FRICTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

TURBULENT FLOW;

FRICTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 34247495526     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0340241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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