Gas-liquid two-phase flow across a bank of micropillars

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Krishnamurthy, Santosh ^a   Peles, Yoav ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; VOID FRACTION;

ADIABATIC NITROGEN-WATER; MICROPILLARS; TWO-PHASE FRICTIONAL MULTIPLIER;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

EID: 34248155763     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2722424     Document Type: Article

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