Flow in the negative wake of a Taylor bubble rising in viscoelastic carboxymethylcellulose solutions: Particle image velocimetry measurements

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 511, Issue , 2004, Pages 217-236

  Sousa, Renato G ^a   Nogueira, S ^a,b   Pinto, A M F R ^a   Riethmuller, M L ^b   Campos, J B L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SOLUTIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOELASTICITY;

LIQUID MOVEMENTS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); SLUG FLOW; TAYLOR BUBBLES; WAKE REGIONS;

WAKES;

BUBBLE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETER; VELOCIMETRY;

EID: 3843139755     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004009644     Document Type: Article

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