Hydrodynamics of gas-liquid Taylor flow in rectangular microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 355-369

  Abadie, Thomas ^a   Aubin, Joëlle ^a   Legendre, Dominique ^a   Xuereb, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Gas liquid Taylor flow; Microchannel; Microreactor; Numerical simulation; Visualisation experiments

Indexed keywords

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; BUBBLE VELOCITIES; FLOW CONDITION; FLUID PROPERTY; GAS AND LIQUID FLOWS; GAS LIQUIDS; HOLD UP; LIQUID PROPERTIES; MICRO-REACTOR; MODEL COEFFICIENT; OPERATING CONDITION; RECTANGULAR MICROCHANNELS; TAYLOR FLOW; THIN LIQUID FILM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID FILMS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISUALIZATION;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84856210966     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0880-8     Document Type: Article

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