Gas-liquid two-phase flow in hot embossed square microchannels

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages 427-435

  Kim, Namwon ^a,b   Evans, Estelle T ^a,b   Park, Daniel S ^b   Nikitopoulos, Dimitris E ^a,b   Soper, Steven A ^b,c   Murphy, Michael C ^a,b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b Center for BioModular Multi Scale Systems   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEIONIZED WATER; DIE CASTING INSERTS; ESTERS; FLOW OF GASES; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW RATE; GASES; INTERSECTIONS; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLDS; NANOSYSTEMS; POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FITTING PARAMETERS; GAS - LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOWS; HOMOGENEOUS LIQUIDS; LIQUID AND GAS FLOW; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); POLYMER MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84928633615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE200742158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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