This index to the Two-Phase Gas-Liquid Flow literature represents an extensive search of the unclassified literature on certain types of two-phase gas-liquid flow phenomena and presents the results of this literature search in a useful form. A total of 5,235 separate citations were listed and indexed. The total accumulated two-phase gas-liquid flow literature is now doubling every five years. Nearly 1,000 new references will appear during the next five calendar years. It is impossible for the average researcher or engineer to be aware of this outpouring of information, let alone be in a position to acquire copies of those documents of interest. It is believed that this subject index will provide those who are interested with an access to the existing literature that is not available in any other way.
The major subject headings are: boiling, bubbles, capillary tube, closed loops, compressible flow phenomena, flow oscillations, gas lift pumps, two-phase flow, void fractions, and miscellaneous topics. Within any major topic there are many subdivisions, depending on geometry, fluid, flow direction, nature of heat transfer, test section, or heated surface orientation and various other detailed aspects of two-phase gas-liquid flow phenomena.
In addition to a detailed subject index a frequency-of-citation study of the two-phase gas-liquid flow literature was undertaken in order to ascertain which of the 5,235 references were most frequently cited and to come up with, is possible, a shortened list of basic references that one could refer to when first becoming involved with two-phase flow. About 200 such references are listed, divided into approximately equal groups according to those that relate essentially to various two-phase flow phenomena.
While there are many basic phenomena that apply to all areas of wo-phase flow, the bibliography does generally exclude such well-defined areas as cavitation, atomization, and condensation. This book will prove useful to both the research worker and the practicing engineer. Since at this time there is no single source to which one can turn for information on the two-phase phenomena indexed herein, it is hoped that the practicing engineer can, by specifying his problem in detail, consult the subject index and come up with pertinent references.
