Buoyancy-driven motion of bubbles in square channels

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3766-3774

  Li, J ^a   Bulusu, V ^a   Gupta, N R ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Buoyancy driven; Multiphase flow; Newtonian fluids; Square capillaries

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; GASES; MICROCIRCULATION; PORT TERMINALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPEED;

AIR BUBBLING; BUBBLE SIZES; BUBBLE VOLUME; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HADAMARD; HYDRAULIC DIAMETERS; MONOTONICALLY; MOTION OF BUBBLES; REENTRANT CAVITIES; REYNOLDS (CO); SHAPE TRANSITIONS; SPHERICAL SHAPES; SPHERICAL(PIVOT); SQUARE CHANNELS; TERMINAL VELOCITIES; WALL DRAG; WEBER NUMBER (WE);

NUMBER THEORY;

EID: 46049103763     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.04.041     Document Type: Article

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