Direct numerical simulations of mass transfer in square microchannels for liquid-liquid slug flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5522-5530

  Di Miceli Raimondi, Nathalie ^a   Prat, Laurent ^a,b   Gourdon, Christophe ^a,b   Cognet, Patrick ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉNIE CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Computation; Mass transfer; Mathematical modelling; Microchannel; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHANNEL DEPTHS; CHANNEL SIZES; COMPUTATION; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; CONVENTIONAL DEVICES; DROPLET LENGTHS; DROPLET VELOCITIES; FLOW PARAMETERS; LIQUID PROCESSES; LIQUID SLUGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MICROREACTORS; SQUARE CHANNELS; VOLUMETRIC MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 54149097317     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.07.025     Document Type: Article

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