CFD approaches for the simulation of hydrodynamics and heat transfer in Taylor flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5575-5584

  Asadolahi, Azadeh N ^a   Gupta, Raghvendra ^a   Fletcher, David F ^a   Haynes, Brian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fully developed; H2 thermal boundary condition; Microchannels; Multiphase flow; Slug flow; Taylor bubble

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; BUBBLE VELOCITIES; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; CONSTANT WALL HEAT FLUX; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; DOMAIN APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FULLY-DEVELOPED; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; LIQUID SLUG; LONG TUBES; MOVING DOMAIN; SINGLE PROCESSORS; SLUG FLOW; TAYLOR BUBBLES; TAYLOR FLOW; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THERMAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME-DEPENDENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TRANSPORT RATE; UNIT CELLS; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84860390079     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.07.047     Document Type: Article

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