The characteristics of pressure drop in microchannels

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3830-3839

  Su, Hongjiu ^a,b   Niu, Haining ^b   Pan, Liwei ^b   Wang, Shudong ^a   Wang, Anjie ^a   Hu, Yongkang ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW TRANSITIONS; GAS TO LIQUIDS; GASPHASE; HOMOGENEOUS FLOW MODEL; INERTIAL FORCES; LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOW; LIQUID PHASE; MARTINELLI PARAMETER; NEW CORRELATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; SEPARATED FLOWS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; TEST FLUIDS; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE; WORKING FLUID;

GAS ABSORPTION; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 77951156646     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9015045     Document Type: Article

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