Surface roughness of machined microchannels and its effect on multiphase boundary conditions

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 227, Issue , 2013, Pages 2-12

  Hecht, Kristin ^a   Messerschmidt, Florian ^a   Pfeifer, Peter ^a   Dittmeyer, Roland ^a   Kraushaar Czarnetzki, Bettina ^b   Hecht, Scott ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Western Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact angle; Multiphase flow; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

LIQUID DROP; LIQUID SURFACE TENSION; POLISHED SURFACES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTACT ANGLE; MICROCHANNELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84879844689     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.11.127     Document Type: Article

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