Review of droplet entrainment in annular flow: Characterization of the entrained droplets

C Berna, A Escrivá, JL Muñoz-Cobo… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
Annular flow is characterized by a thin liquid film flowing on the pipe wall and a high velocity
gas core flowing in its center, which normally carries liquid droplets. This review presents …

Two-phase annular flow in vertical pipes: A critical review of current research techniques and progress

Y Xue, C Stewart, D Kelly, D Campbell, M Gormley - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Two-phase annular flow in vertical pipes is one of the most common and important flow
regimes in fluid mechanics, particularly in the field of building drainage systems where …

Correlations of void fraction for two-phase refrigerant flow in pipes

Y Xu, X Fang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
The calculation of void fraction for two-phase refrigerant flow in pipes is required in many
fields. Although numerous void fraction correlations have been proposed and lots of related …

Characterizing two-phase flow-induced vibration in piping structures with U-bends

OE Bamidele, WH Ahmed, M Hassan - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current work investigates flow-induced vibrations for air-water two-phase passing
through bends. The vibration of a 90° U-bend structure with a radius to diameter ratio of 0.4 …

Effects of liquid viscosity and surface tension on atomization in two-phase, gas/liquid fluid coker nozzles

CE Ejim, MA Rahman, A Amirfazli, BA Fleck - Fuel, 2010 - Elsevier
This is an experimental study of the effects of liquid viscosity (μL) and surface tension (γ) on
the size of droplets produced by an atomizer fed with a two-phase gas/liquid (TPGL) mixture …

Effects of the gas phase molecular weight and bubble size on effervescent atomization

MA Rahman, M Balzan, T Heidrick, BA Fleck - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The effervescent atomization from an industrial Coker feed nozzle is compared for two
different gas densities (air and mixed gas of 81.4 vol.% helium/18.6 vol.% nitrogen) at …

Modeling pseudo-slugs liquid holdup in slightly upward inclined pipes

Y Fan, E Al-Safran, E Pereyra, C Sarica - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pseudo-slug flow is a sub-regime of intermittent flow that is characterized by short,
undeveloped, frothy chaotic slugs, with a translational velocity less than the mixture velocity …

CFD simulation of two-phase flows in helical coils

S Che, D Breitenmoser, YY Infimovskiy… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The behavior of two-phase flow and corresponding flow regimes in helical tubes significantly
differ when compared to two-phase flows in straight tubes due to centrifugal and torsion …

Research on mechanism of dynamic evolution vibration characteristics of horizontal 90 deg elbow flow pattern

Z Liang, C Guo, C Yang - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Pipeline vibration induced by fluid flow can cause pipeline fatigue damage, which seriously
endangers the safety of the operation. This paper aims to clarify the dynamic variation law of …

Experimental investigation of the entrained droplet velocities in a submerged jet injected into a stagnant water pool

C Berna, JE Juliá, A Escrivá, JL Muñoz-Cobo… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2017 - Elsevier
Submerged gaseous jets injected into stagnant water are commonly found in many
industrial processes and engineering applications, like underwater propulsion, metallurgical …