Two-phase air-water slug flow measurement in horizontal pipe using conductance probes and neural network

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 456-466

  Fan, Shiwei ^a   Yan, Tinghu ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conductance probe; Cross correlation; Gas flow rate; Liquid flow rate; Liquid holdup; Neural network; Slug flow

Indexed keywords

AIR; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FLOW OF GASES; LIQUIDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CONDUCTANCE PROBE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; LIQUID FLOW RATES; LIQUID HOLD UPS; SLUG FLOW;

FLOW RATE;

EID: 84892432977     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2280485     Document Type: Article

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