Browsing Department of Mechanical Engineering by Subject "Bubbles."

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    • Bubble growth rates in boiling 

      Griffith, P. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Industrial Cooperation, [1956], 1956)
      The conditions determining the growth rate of a bubble on a surface in boiling are considered and a mathematical model framed in the light of these conditions. The growth rate is then calculated for bubbles growing under ...

    • The bubbly-slug transition in a high velocity two phase flow 

      Griffith, P.; Snyder, George A. (Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Division of Sponsored Research, [1964], 1964)
      A possible mechanism for the transition between bubbly and slug flow is proposed and tested in a simulated slug flow system. No sudden collapse of slug flow with increasing velocity is found and it is concluded that: a. ...

    • Entrance effects in a developing slug flow 

      Moissis, Raphael; Griffith, P. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Industrial Cooperation, [1960], 1960)
      The kinetics of a Taylor bubble, as it rises behind a series of other bubbles in a gas-liquid slug flow, have been determined. The rise velocity of a bubble is expressed as a function of separation distance from the bubble ...

    • The mechanism of heat transfer in nucleate pool boiling 

      Han, Chi-Yeh; Griffith, P. (Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Division of Sponsored Research, [1962], 1962)
      A criterion is developed for bubble initiation from a gas filled cavity on a surface in contact with a superheated layer of liquid. It is found that the temperature of bubble initiation on a given surface is a function of ...

    • Nucleate boiling bubble growth and departure 

      Staniszewski, Bogumil E. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Industrial Cooperation, [1959], 1959)
      The vapor bubble formation on the heating surface during pool boiling has been studied experimentally. Experiments were made at the atmospheric pressure 28 psi and 40 psi, using degassed distilled water and ethanol. The ...

    • Some hydrodynamic characteristics of bubbly mixtures flowing vertically upward in tubes 

      Rose, Sewell C.; Griffith, P. (Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Division of Sponsored Research, [1964], 1964)
      An investigation of bubbly flow has been conducted in vertical plexiglass tubes using air and water at atmospheric pressure. The bubbly flow pattern is an entrance condition or a non-fully developed flow. A spontaneous ...

    • The thermodynamics of bubbles 

      Clark, John A. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Industrial Cooperation, [1956], 1956)
      This paper outlines those concitions annanded by the laws of thermodynamics for equilibriza betwoen the vapor in a bubble and the surrounding liquid and then employs these concepts with a nucleation theory in an atteapt ...

    • The transition from two phase bubble flow to slug flow 

      Radovcich, Nick A.; Moissis, Raphael. (Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Division of Sponsored Research, [1962], 1962)
      The process of transition from bubble to slug flow in a vertical pipe has been studied analytically and experimentally. An equation is presented which gives the agglomeration time as a function of void fraction, channel ...

    • Two phase flow in capillary tubes 

      Suo, Mikio; Griffith, P. (Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Heat Transfer Laboratory, [1963], 1963)
      The flow of two phases, gas and liquid, has been studied in horizontal tubes of capillary diameter. The flow has been primarily studied in the regime where the gas flows as long bubbles separated from the wall of the tube ...