Film and slug behaviour in intermittent slug-annular microchannel flows

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5344-5355

  Fouilland, T S ^a   Fletcher, D F ^a   Haynes, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Liquid film thickness; Micro PIV; Multiphase flow; Transport process; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; ANNULAR FLOWS; ANNULAR MICROCHANNEL; ANNULAR RINGS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIAMETER CHANNELS; DIRECT OBSERVATION; EQUILIBRIUM VALUE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW REGIMES; GAS BUBBLE; GAS HOLD UP; GAS LIQUIDS; GAS SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; GAS-LIQUID SYSTEMS; INTERFACIAL SHEAR; LIMITING CASE; LIQUID SLUG; LIQUID SUPERFICIAL VELOCITIES; MICRO PIV; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PRESSURE FIELD; SLUG FLOW; TAYLOR FLOW; TIME-AVERAGED VELOCITY; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISUALISATION; WORKING FLUID;

ELECTROOSMOSIS; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID FILMS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MICROCHANNELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISUALIZATION;

GASES;

EID: 77955555832     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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