| Abstract: | Gas‐liquid co‐current vertical slug flow was studied in a vertical Plexiglas tube. Taylor bubbles and liquid slug lengths and their rising velocities were measured by means of a pair of conductivity probes under un‐fully developed flow conditions. The influences of the superficial velocity of gas and liquid on slug flow parameters were examined. Using statistical analysis on the length of Taylor bubbles, the probability distribution of the length of the Taylor bubbles was obtained, which obeyed a normal distribution under a significance level of α = 0.05. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 34(4): 235–242, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.20063 |
