An empirical correlation of drag coefficient for a single bubble rising in non-Newtonian liquids

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 9767-9772

  Zhang, Li ^a   Yang, Chao ^a,b   Mao, Zai Sha ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b Jiangsu Institute of Marine Resource Exploitation   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIQUIDS; NANOFLUIDICS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ADDED MASSES; CHARGED COUPLED; DRAG FORCES; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; HISTORY FORCES; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; RISING BUBBLES; SINGLE BUBBLES; STEADY MOTIONS;

NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

EID: 57949105569     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8010319     Document Type: Article

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