Cap bubbly-to-slug flow regime transition in a vertical annulus

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 458-464

  Sun, X ^a   Kuran, S ^a   Ishii, M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; CHANNEL FLOW; COALESCENCE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

GAS LIQUID TWO PHASE FLOWS; IMPEDENCE VOID METERS; VERTICAL ANNULAR FLOW CHANNELS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

ANNULAR FLOW; BUBBLY FLOW; SLUG FLOW;

EID: 4644343771     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-004-0809-z     Document Type: Article

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