Experimental measurements have been made of the properties of falling liquid films of water with and without the addition of polymeric drag reducing agents. It was found that the presence of the drag reducing agent stabilised the film, delaying the disturbance wave transition to higher Reynolds numb
Liquid film thickness in annular flow
โ Scribed by R.P.S. Srivastava
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 526 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2509
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โฆ Synopsis
An analytical solution relating the mass flow rate to the film thickness and other flow parameters have been developed for the general case of gas-liquid two-phase annular flow in a horizontal pipe line for power-law fluids. The equation developed reduces to the equation derived for the Newtonian fluid when the flow index is equated to unity. In the absence of a detailed knowledge of the flow dynamics, the data were interpreted tentatively in terms of superficial gas-liquid mass flow rate.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Expressions have been developed for pressure gradient and liquid film thickness in upwards annular co-current flow of gas and liquid in the absence of disturbance waves and droplet entrainment. Experimental measurements of pressure gradient have been made with various phase flow rates, tube diameter