Gas-liquid two-phase flows in rectangular polymer micro-channels

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 373-393

  Kim, Namwon ^a   Evans, Estelle T ^a   Park, Daniel S ^a   Soper, Steven A ^b   Murphy, Michael C ^a   Nikitopoulos, Dimitris E ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE LENGTH; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CAPILLARY SCALE; FLOW TOPOLOGY; GAS BUBBLE; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; GEOMETRIC MODELS; INFLUENCING FACTOR; INJECTION SYSTEMS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; LIQUID PLUGS; LIQUID SUPERFICIAL VELOCITIES; POWER LAW; REGIME TRANSITION; SEGMENTED FLOW; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; TEST CHANNEL; TEST CHIPS; TOPOLOGICAL FLOWS; TWO-PHASE PRESSURE DROPS; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATIO;

ASPECT RATIO; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONTACT ANGLE; GASES; POLYMERS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOPOLOGY; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 80052646856     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1041-2     Document Type: Article

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