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Flow Pattern Transitions in Gas-Liquid Systems: Measurement and Modeling

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The need for reliable design methods has been the driving force behind a very large research effort in two-phase gas-liquid flow over the past 25 years. This work has been carried out at universities, national laboratories, and at industrial research and design organizations in many countries of the world. The result of this effort has been an extraordinary number of publications on the subject. Over 7500 papers, theses, and reports have appeared in these 25 years. Furthermore, the rate of publication has been increasing in recent years. Most predictive correlations that have been proposed as a result of all this work have been based largely on experiment and are valid only under conditions near that of the experiment. It is precisely for this reason that so many publications result. Each time a new condition is to be investigated new experiments are necessary.

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    A. E. Dukler

  2. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Dukler, A.E., Taitel, Y. (1986). Flow Pattern Transitions in Gas-Liquid Systems: Measurement and Modeling. In: Hewitt, G.F., Delhaye, J.M., Zuber, N. (eds) Multiphase Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01657-2_1

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