Distribution of flowing fluids in a confined porous medium under microgravity conditions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3045-3050

  Guo, Boyun ^a   Holder, Donald W ^b   Carter, Layne ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; GRAVITATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

COLUMN REACTORS; MICROGRAVITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BUBBLE COLUMN; FLUID FLOW; MICROGRAVITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 4344611350     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1768551     Document Type: Article

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