Stability of the steady-state displacement of a liquid plug driven by a constant pressure difference along a prewetted capillary tube

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6307-6315

  Ubal, Sebastián ^a,b   Campana, Diego M ^a,b   Giavedoni, María D ^a   Saita, Fernando A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CONSTANT PRESSURE DIFFERENCE; CONSTANT SPEED; PLUG INS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 50849111717     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8000309     Document Type: Article

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