Measurement of axisymmetric two-phase flows by an improved X-ray-computed tomography technique

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2063-2074

  Wu, Changning ^a   Cheng, Yi ^a   Liu, Malin ^a   Jin, Yong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; BUBBLE FORMATION; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY; TWO PHASE FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); APPLIED (CO); AXISYMMETRIC; BEAM HARDENING EFFECTS; ENERGY MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION (EBP); GAS HOLD UPS; INVERSION METHODS; NEW APPROACHES; NONIDEAL; PHASE CONCENTRATION; PROJECTION DATA; PULSE WIDTH (PW); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION; TWO-PHASE FLOW (2PF); X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (X-RAY CT); X-RAY IMAGING; X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 45849125419     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie071002w     Document Type: Article

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