SPRITE MRI of bubbly flow in a horizontal pipe

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 126-135

  Sankey, Mark ^a   Yang, Zhi ^b   Gladden, Lynn ^a   Johns, Michael L ^a   Lister, Derek ^b   Newling, Benedict ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

MRI; SPRITE; Turbulence; Two phase flow; Velocimetry

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FLOW; BUBBLY FLOW; DISPERSED BUBBLES; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; GAS LIQUID FLOWS; HORIZONTAL PIPES; LIQUID REYNOLDS NUMBERS; LIQUID VELOCITIES; MRI; PHASE GAS; PULSE SEQUENCE; RELATIVE INTENSITY; RESONANCE SIGNALS; SPRITE; SPRITE MRI; TURBULENCE GRID; VELOCIMETRY;

AIR; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; PIPE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TWO PHASE FLOW; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PHASE INTERFACES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FLOW KINETICS; GAS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; GASES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 67649427858     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.01.034     Document Type: Article

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