Flow transition behavior of the wetting flow between the film flow and rivulet flow on an inclined wall

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Iso, Yoshiyuki ^a,e   Chen, Xi ^b,c,d  

^a IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e IHI INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; film; gas liquid interfacial flow; multiphase flow; packed column; rivulet; texture; transition; wetting flow

Indexed keywords

FILM FLOWS; FLOW PATTERN TRANSITION; FLOW TRANSITIONS; GAS LIQUIDS; INCLINED WALLS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; INTERFACIAL FLOWS; INTERFACIAL SURFACE; LIQUID FLOW RATES; LIQUID-FILM FLOW; PACKED COLUMN; RIVULET; RIVULET FLOW; SURFACE TEXTURES; TEXTURE GEOMETRY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSITION; TRANSITION PHENOMENON; VOLUME OF FLUID MODEL; WALL SURFACES; WETTED AREA;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESORPTION; DISTILLATION; FILMS; FLOW RATE; LIQUID FILMS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; STREAM FLOW; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WETTING;

EID: 80052837962     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004765     Document Type: Article

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