Two-phase flow across small sudden expansions and contractions

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 298-309

  Chen, Ing Young ^a   Wongwises, Somchai ^b   Yang, Bing Chwen ^c   Wang, Chi Chuan ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT EXPANSIONS; BOND NUMBERS; FLOW PHENOMENA; HEAT EXCHANGING; HOMOGENEOUS MODELS; LIQUID JETS; LOW QUALITIES; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; SATISFACTORY PREDICTIONS; SMALL CHANNELS; SMALL-DIAMETER; SUDDEN CONTRACTION; SUDDEN EXPANSION; TOTAL MASS FLUX;

JETS; LIQUIDS; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EID: 77649279461     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630903312056     Document Type: Article

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