Phase field modeling of Taylor flow in mini/microchannels, Part II: Hydrodynamics of Taylor flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 156-165

  Ganapathy, Harish ^a,b   Al Hajri, Ebrahim ^b   Ohadi, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamics; Multiphase flow; Numerical analysis; Phase field; Taylor flow

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID FILMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CONVENTIONAL MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION; PHASE FIELD EQUATION; PHASE FIELDS; TAYLOR FLOW; VOLUME OF FLUID MODEL;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84875485961     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2013.01.048     Document Type: Article

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