Micromixing enhanced by pulsating flows

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 2009, Pages 5258-5261

  Mao, W B ^a,b   Xu, J L ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Disturbance amplitude; Micromixing; Mixing degree; Pulsating flow; Pulsating frequency

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE AMPLITUDE; MICROMIXING; MIXING DEGREE; PULSATING FLOW; PULSATING FREQUENCY;

REYNOLDS NUMBER; STROUHAL NUMBER;

MIXING;

EID: 68749092277     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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