Monitoring Gas Void Fraction In Two-Phase Flow With Acoustic Emission

........................................................................................................ i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................... iii LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................................... viii LIST OF TABLES...............................................................................................ix NOMENCLATURE .............................................................................................xi 1 Chapter 1 : Introduction and thesis structure............................................... 1 1.

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