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Flow of Bubbly Liquids in a Vertical Pipe: Theory and Experiments

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IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow

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Recent measurements of bubble-phase velocity, volume fraction, and velocity variance, and liquid velocity profiles for flows of bubbly liquids in a vertical pipe are shown to be in good agreement with the predictions based on averaged equations.

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Sangani, A.S., Ozarkar, S.S., Tsang, Y.H., Koch, D.L. (2006). Flow of Bubbly Liquids in a Vertical Pipe: Theory and Experiments. In: Balachandar, S., Prosperetti, A. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4977-3_37

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