ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In the Name of ALLAH, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
I would like to express my deep, warm and endless gratitude to my teacher and advisor, Prof.
Norio Arihara for his fine direction, continuous support and helpful advice. I am proud of having become the member of Arihara laboratory.
I would like to acknowledge Prof. Nobuo Morita and Prof. Tadao Moro of the Waseda University for their valuable advices.
Dr. Masaru Ihara, Dr. Ryo Manabe, and Dr. Yugdutt Sharma from Technology Research Center (TRC) of Japan National Oil Corporation are also acknowledged for their enlightening discussions, meaningful suggestions and assistance through this study.
I acknowledge Mr. Kenji Ikeda and Mr. Daiji Nakamura from TRC for their dedicated work, without which the completion of instrumentation of the test loop would not have been possible.
Mr. Hisashi Amagai, who had collaborated for part of this study, Mr. Takeshi Onishi, Mr.
Masanao Yasui, Mr. Hideaki Kuramata and everybody of the Arihara laboratory are greatly appreciated and thanked for their cooperation and friendship.
I am thankful to my first teacher in Japan, Prof. Tateki Miyamori of Nihon University, who has supported my academic life.
I extend my most sincere appreciation to Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation, Inc. who offered the scholarship for two years in order that I may continue research. I am also grateful to Japan National Oil Corporation for offering multiphase flow experiment facility and the experiment instrument.
My profound gratitude is due to my beloved and patient mother and dear father for their love and encouragements.
This acknowledgement cannot end without addressing the support and love given by the wife and daughter that made this study achievable. Without them I would never enjoy this life.
My thanks also go to the people of all that aided my research and the life in Japan.
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