Effect of inlet geometry on adiabatic gas-liquid two-phase flow in a microchannel

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 933-938

  Ide, Hideo ^a   Kimura, Ryuji ^a   Kawaji, Masahiro ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS VOLUME; INFRARED PHOTODIODES; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS;

GEOMETRY; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTODIODES; VIDEO CAMERAS; VOID FRACTION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 37249041410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICNMM2007-30141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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