A viscous-inertial model of foam drainage

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 928-935

  Stevenson, Paul ^a   Li, Xueliang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drainage; Foam; Inertia; Velocity head

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE RADIUS; COMMON FACTORS; DRAINAGE RATE; ERGUN EQUATION; FLOWTHROUGH; FLUID FLOW; FOAM DRAINAGE; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GALILEO NUMBER; GAS-LIQUID FOAMS; INERTIA; INERTIAL PRESSURE; INERTIAL VELOCITY; LIQUID FLOW; MONO-DISPERSED; PRESSURE LOSS; VELOCITY HEAD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; PACKED BEDS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 77955416362     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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