Buoyancy-driven motion of a gas bubble through viscous liquid in a round tube

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 609, Issue , 2008, Pages 377-410

  Feng, James Q ^a  

^a BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); BUOYANCY; LIQUIDS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW; BUOYANCY DRIVEN MOTION; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CORRELATION FORMULAE; EQUIVALENT RADIUS; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS; TERMINAL VELOCITY;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

BUBBLE; BUOYANCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FROUDE NUMBER; GALERKIN METHOD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 48949105339     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008002516     Document Type: Article

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