Energy spectra and bubble velocity distributions in pseudo-turbulence: Numerical simulations vs. experiments

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1093-1098

  Roghair, Ivo ^a   Mercado, Julián Martínez ^b   Sint Annaland, Martin Van ^a   Kuipers, Hans ^a   Sun, Chao ^b   Lohse, Detlef ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubble velocity; Bubbly flow; Front tracking; Pseudo turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; BUBBLE VELOCITIES; BUBBLY FLOW; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FRONT TRACKING; FRONT TRACKING METHOD; GAS FRACTION; INTERMITTENCY; LARGE-SCALE FLOW STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT TIME; MONODISPERSE; NON-GAUSSIAN FEATURES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY; PHASE-SENSITIVE; POWER LAW; PSEUDO-TURBULENCE; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ANEMOMETERS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80052100392     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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