Modeling and simulation of inertial drop break-up in a turbulent pipe flow downstream of a restriction

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Maniero, Riccardo ^a,b   Masbernat, Olivier ^a,b   Climent, Eric ^a,b   Risso, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Break up; Drop; Interfacial dynamics; Numerical simulation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BREAK-UP PROBABILITY; CRITICAL VALUE; DROP DEFORMATION; EULER-LAGRANGE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW DOWNSTREAM; FLOW STATISTICS; FORCE BALANCES; INTERFACE DEFORMATION; INTERFACIAL DYNAMICS; MODELING AND SIMULATION; ONE-WAY COUPLINGS; RAYLEIGH-LAMB; SINGLE DROPS; TURBULENT FIELDS; TURBULENT PIPE FLOW; TURBULENT STRESS;

DEFORMATION; DROP BREAKUP; DROPS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84856773996     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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