Prediction of flow pattern of gas-liquid flow through circular microchannel using probabilistic neural network

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1674-1685

  Timung, Seim ^a   Mandal, Tapas K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Microchannel; Microstructure; Multiphase flow; Probabilistic neural network; Transition boundary; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; CHANNEL DIAMETERS; CIRCULAR MICROCHANNEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLOWTHROUGH; FLUID PROPERTY; GAS LIQUID FLOWS; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; LIQUID PHASE; MODEL-BASED OPC; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; TRANSITION BOUNDARIES; WEBER NUMBERS;

AIR; FORECASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NEURAL NETWORKS; NITROGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURFACE TENSION; TURBULENCE; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EID: 84873621142     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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