Flow of two immiscible fluids in a periodically constricted tube: Transitions to stratified, segmented, churn, spray, or segregated flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 082102-

  Fraggedakis, D ^a   Kouris, Ch ^a   Dimakopoulos, Y ^a   Tsamopoulos, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

CONSTANT PRESSURE GRADIENT; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INTERFACIAL INSTABILITY; PATTERN TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOWS; TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES; VOLUME OF FLUID ALGORITHMS;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EID: 84939165022     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4928052     Document Type: Article

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