Numerical investigation of the stability of bubble train flow in a square minichannel

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Öztaskin, Murat C ^a,b,c,d   Wörner, Martin ^b   Soyhan, Hakan S ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d Balcikkoyu   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SQUARE MINICHANNEL; TERMINAL LENGTHS; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 65549131576     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3101146     Document Type: Article

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