A facile pressure drop measurement system and its applications to gas-liquid microflows

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 715-724

  Riaud, Antoine ^a   Tostado, Chris P ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Luo, Guangsheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gas liquid two phase flow; Measurement; Microchannel; Microflow; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT PRESSURE DROPS; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MICRO-FLOW; OSCILLATING PRESSURE; PRESSURE CALIBRATION; PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENTS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; VIBRATION INSULATION;

LIQUIDS; MEASUREMENTS; PRESSURE DROP;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84888130099     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-013-1174-0     Document Type: Article

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