Distribution of void fraction for gas-liquid slug flow in an inclined pipe

In order to investigate the effect of inclination angle on the spatial distribution of phases,experiments on gas-liquid two-phase slug flow in an inclined pipe were carried out by using the optical probe and an EKTAPRO 1000 high speed motion analyzer.It has been demonstrated that the inclination angle and the mixture velocity are important parameters to influence the distribution of void fraction for upward slug flow in the inclined pipe.At high mixture velocity,the gas phase profile is axial symmetry in the cross-section of the pipe.This is similar to that for vertical slug flow.In contrast.most of the gas phase is located near the upper pipe wall at low mixture velocity.By measuring the axial variation of void fraction along the liquid slug.it can be concluded that there is a high void fraction wake region with length of 3-4D in the front of liquid slug.In the fully developed zone of liquid slug.the peak value of the void fraction is near the upper wall.     

向上倾斜管内气-水两相流流型转变分析

对管径15 mm,管长6 m的有机玻璃管,在两种不同的向上倾斜角度(15°、30°)下,同向通过的气水两相流流型转变进行了分析,列出相应的转变准则关系式。结果显示,弹状流向泡状流转变界限的实验值与计算符合较好,间歇流向环状流的转变界限在低液体流速下符合较好。     

摇摆状态下气液两相流流型转变的实验研究

通过可视化观察和数码照片对摇摆状态下光滑有机玻璃管内气液两相流流型进行分类和定义,并分析了不同管径、摇摆角度以及摇摆周期对流型之间转变的影响.结果表明:在液相折算流速一样的情况下,管径增加、摇摆周期缩短或摇摆角度减小会使得环状流形成需要更高的气体折算流速;弹状流向搅混流转变所需气相流量则随着管径的减小、摇摆周期的增加或摇摆角度的减小而增加.而在气相折算流速一样的条件下,管径增加、摇摆周期缩短或摇摆角度增大会使泡状流产生需要更高的液相流量.     

Flow patterns and their transition characteristicsof the air-water two-phase flow in a horizontal pipe with asudden-changed cross-section area

Flow patterns in upstream and downstream straight tubes of suddenchanged areas in a horizontal straight pipe were experimentally examined.Both sudden-expansion cross-section(SECS)and sudden-contraction cross-section(SCCS) were inverstigated.The flow pattern maps upstream and downstream were delineated and compared with those in straight tubes with uniform cross-sections.The effects of the SECS and SCCS on flow patterns were discussed and analyzed.Furthermore.flow pattern transition mechanisms resulting in occurrences of different flow patterns were simply discussed and some transition criteria for the flow pattern transitions were deduced by using the non-dimensionlized analysis method.     

Behavior of a Single Bubble in Quiescent and Flowing Liquid inside a Cylindrical Tube

The velocity of a single bubble in quiescent and flowing liquid was studied to gain information on the structure of bubble- and slug-flows of gas-liquid two-phase flow.

In the experiments, tap water was used at room temperature and the bubbles were generated by injecting air with a syringe. The bubble velocities were evaluated from photographs taken by multiflash exposure. The tube diameters adopted were 5, 1 and 0.5 cm for the flowing liquid experiments and 1, 0.5 and 0.2 cm for the quiescent liquid experiments. The average liquid velocities varied from about 0 to 2 m/sec.

The results indicated that the velocity of a single bubble in flowing liquid was the sum of the local liquid velocity in the vicinity of the bubble and of the velocity of rise of bubble in quiescent liquid. For Taylor bubbles, the local liquid velocity is given by the maximum liquid velocity near the center of the channel.

The velocities of spherical and ellipsoidal bubbles are determined by the balance of forces acting on them, but that of the Taylor bubble appears to be determined by a different mechanism. A good explanation of such a mechanism is Taylor instability at the gas-liquid interface well removed from the channel wall.     

Two-phase flow and boiling heat transfer in two vertical narrow annuli

Experimental study associated with two-phase flow and heat transfer during flow boiling in two vertical narrow annuli has been conducted. The parameters examined were: mass flux from 38.8 to 163.1 kg/m² s; heat flux from 4.9 to 50.7 kW/m² for inside tube and from 4.2 to 78.8 kW/m² for outside tube; equilibrium mass quality from 0.02 to 0.88; system pressure from 1.5 to 6.0 MPa. It was found that the boiling heat transfer was strongly influenced by heat flux, while the effect of mass velocity and mass quality were not very significant. This suggested that the boiling heat transfer was mainly via nucleate boiling. The data were used to develop a new correlation for boiling heat transfer in the narrow annuli. In the two-phase flow study, the comparison with the correlation of Chisholm [Chisholm, D., 1967. A theoretical basis for the Lockhart–Martinelli correlation for two-phase flow. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 10, 1767–1778] and Mishima and Hibiki [Mishima, K., Hibiki, T., 1996. Some characteristics of air–water two-phase flow in small diameter vertical tubes. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 22, 703–712] indicated that the existing correlations could not predict the two-phase multiplier in the narrow annuli well. Based on the experimental data, a new correlation was developed.     

Pressure wave propagation in air-water bubbly and slug flow

Related to nuclear reactor safety problems, such as the loss of coolant accident caused by some small crevasses in nuclear reactor, choked flows after postulated breaks of hot and cold legs of pressurized water reactors and the boiling flow instability in parallel channels, the characteristics of pressure wave propagation were investigated experimentally for the air-water bubbly and slug two-phase flow in a vertical pipe. Pressure wave was generated from the small pressure disturbance by the up-and-down movement of piston in the test section. Air void fraction was up to 0.7 and superficial liquid velocity was up to 1.5 m/s as experimental conditions. The experimental results show that the pressure wave propagation velocity in bubbly flow decreases acutely with the increase of air void fraction from 0 to 0.05. In slug flow, it is constant when the air void fraction is less than 0.5 but increases gradually when the void fraction increases beyond 0.5. The attenuation coefficient of pressure wave increases with the increase of air void fraction in bubbly flow. The dependency of pressure wave propagation velocity on angle frequency ω in air-water flow shows the dispersion characteristic. The propagation velocity and attenuation coefficient increases gradually with the increase of angle frequency. However, the increase vanishes slowly as the angle frequency reaches 250 Hz in bubbly flow. The propagation of pressure wave in bubbly flow is independent of the superficial velocity of fluids in the range of experiment.     

竖直管内弹状流向搅混流转变界限的判定

本文对两种不同管径的竖直管内弹状流向搅混流转变界限的判定进行了实验研究.实验发现,在弹状流向搅混流转变的过程中,管内压力会随气体流量的增加出现先降低后上升的非单调性变化.通过对管内压力和摩阻变化的理论分析,并在可视化观察的基础上,提出压力变化曲线的转折点即为搅混流产生的起始点.然后根据实验数据,绘出两种不同管径下的搅混流转变界限.     

汽液两相均相流动模型的小波分析热工计算方法

利用小波分析法的多分辨分析特性,对汽液两相均相流动模型进行了数值求解。结果证明：这种数值方法可用于汽液两相流动的耦合微分方程组的计算。     

Experimental research on flow instability in vertical narrow annuli

A narrow annular test section of 1.5mm gap and 1800mm length was designed and manufactured, with good tightness and insulation. Experiments were carried out to investigate characteristics of flow instability of forced-convection in vertical narrow annuli. Using distilled water as work fluid, the experiments were conducted at pressures of 1.0～3.0 MPa, mass flow rates of 3.0～25 kg/h, heating power of 3.0～ 6.5kW and inlet fluid temperature of 20 ℃, 40 ℃ or 60℃. It was found that flow instability occured with fixed inlet condition and heating power when mass flow rate was below a special value. Effects of inlet subcooling, system pressure and mass flow rate on the system behavior were studied and the instability region was given.     

Local measurement of bubbly flow in helically coiled tubes using double-sensor conductivity probe

ABSTRACT

The two-phase flow in helically coiled tubes (HCTs) is rather important in many industries, such as the heat exchange facility in nuclear power plant. In this work, a double-sensor conductivity probe was used to study the air/water bubbly flow in HCTs. The cross-sectional distribution profile of the interfacial parameters (void fraction, interfacial area concentration, bubble size, etc.) of air–water bubbly flow were systematically studied. Through carefully processing the raw data collected by the double-sensor conductivity probe, the distribution of the void fraction, interfacial area concentration, the bubbles number frequency over the cross-section are demonstrated, as well as the bubble velocities and sizes vertically in the dense region. Some statistical parameters of cross-sectional-averaged quantities, coefficients of variation, and bubble aggregation core coordinates are defined to quantitatively describe the distribution characteristics of interfacial parameters. The measured data are helpful for improving the understanding of two-phase flow characteristics in HCTs.     

卧式螺旋管内泡状流转变的研究

本文在对卧式螺旋管内气液两相泡状流动及其转变的特征进行详细的实验研究的基础上,以现象为根据建立了泡状流转变的模型,给出了全范围内泡状流转变的边界预报式,实验与理论结果符合得很好。模型考虑了离心力和重力联合作用下的机制,对于弯管和直管内流动,模型具有兼顾的性质。     

垂直上升管内泡状流压力波传播

研究了垂直上升管内气液两相泡状流压力波的传播速度和衰减规律,为了提高压力波测量精度．实验中设计了不影响两相流动结构的调频式压力扰动装置．实验结果表明,随着含气率的增加,泡状流中压力波波速开始陡降,当含气率大于0．05以后波速缓慢下降;衰减系数随含气率的增加连续增加：工质的流速对压力波的传播没有影响;压力波的传播速度及其衰减与扰动频率有关．随着扰动频率的增加,波速及其衰减都增加本文实验验证了泡状流压力波色散特性的临界频率现象．即高于临界频率．压力波的色散特性消失．在本试验条件和参数范围内．临界扰动角频率为300Hz．     

Recent experiments for laminar and turbulent film heat transfer in vertical tubes

This study reviews experimental local heat-transfer data for laminar and turbulent film heat transfer for downward condensing films, under the influence of interfacial-waviness and shear–stress effects. Local laminar-wavy-film heat transfer and transition to turbulence are significantly influenced by local wave characteristics, which depend not only on the film developing length, but also on the film-formation method. The results demonstrate that the dimensionless film thickness, incorporating shear stress, provides a more appropriate length scale to estimate laminar-wavy-film heat transfer, as well as transition to turbulence. For turbulent films, a phenomenologically-based local heat-transfer correlation has been proposed, treating the near-wall and near-interface regions in series, to derive a ‘two-layer resistance model', based on the investigation of turbulence structure across sheared gas–liquid interfaces.     

Deuterium recovery from water–isotope mixture by thermal diffusion in countercurrent-flow Frazier scheme inclined for improved performance

The theory for recovery of deuterium from water isotope mixture by thermal diffusion in countercurrent-flow inclined Frazier scheme has been developed and investigated. The equations for the optimal angles of inclination and the corresponding best performances were derived. Considerable improvement in performance is obtained when the Frazier scheme is operated at the optimal angle of inclination. Further improvement can be achieved if the operation is conducted in countercurrent flow, instead of being in cocurrent flow.     

Two-phase flow instability in a parallel multichannel system

The two-phase flow instabilities observed in through parallel multichannel can be classified into three types, of which only one is intrinsic to parallel multichannel systems. The intrinsic instabilities observed in parallel multichannel system have been studied experimentally. The stable boundary of the flow in such a parallel-channel system are sought, and the nature of inlet flow oscillation in the unstable region has been examined experimentally under various conditions of inlet velocity, heat flux, liquid temperature, cross section of channel and entrance throttling. The results show that parallel multichannel system possess a characteristic oscillation that is quite independent of the magnitude and duration of the initial disturbance, and the stable boundary is influenced by the characteristic frequency of the system as well as by the exit quality when this is low, and upon raising the exit quality and reducing the characteristic frequency, the system increases its instability, and entrance throttling effectively contributes to stabilization of the system.     

气-液两相流图像灰度脉动信号的多尺度双分形特性研究

应用高速摄影技术拍取气-液两相流水平管中3种典型流型的动态图像视频,对每一帧图像的平均灰度脉动信号进行提取;将提取的信号进行多尺度固有模态函数分解,然后与极差/标准偏差(R/S)分析方法相结合,提取各尺度的HURST指数和双分形特征.对气-液两相流的3种典型流型进行了气泡群和单个气泡2种形式的动力学行为分析,应用峭度系...     

LEVEL SET输运方程的求解方法及其对气-液两相流运动界面数值模拟的影响

用数值模拟方法来研究气-液两相流动与传热现象是当今多相流领域的一个热门课题。由于两相流固有的复杂性,气-液两相流界面迁移现象的数值模拟一直是两相流研究中的一大难点。本文介绍了捕捉气-液两相流相界面运动的水平集方法(Level Set)及其研究进展,介绍了求解Level Set输运方程的3种方法,即一般差分格式、Superbee-TVD格式和Runge-Kutta法-5阶WENO组合格式。结合主流场的求解,分别用这3种方法对4种典型相界面在5种流场中的迁移特性进行了模拟计算,并对计算结果进行了比较和分析。结果表明,Runge-Kutta法-5阶WENO组合格式求解LevelSet输运方程的效果最好,在以后的计算中将主要采用这种组合格式来进行气-液相界面输运方程的求解。     

A Disturbance Wave Instability Model for Annular-to-intermittent Flow Transition in Vertical Two-phase Flow System

A model is developed to describe the transition from annular flow to intermittent flow in a vertical two-phase flow system. Since the instability of the disturbance wave, which is a dominant wave shape at the boundary between annular flow and intermittent flow, is considered as a governing mechanism, this instability described by the concept of hyperbolicity breaking in the characteristic equation is included in the model. The developed model is validated by comparing its predictions of gas superficial velocity for the transition with experimental data available in the literature, and comparing those with the predictions of the other correlations. The comparison results show that the model gives better predictions for the transition condition than existing correlations, and the effects of fluid properties, geometry and liquid flow rate on the transition are well considered by the developed model. The average of prediction errors is 3% for the present model. The standard deviation of the prediction errors of the model reaches 28%, which is the smallest among the models compared here.     

MIPR堆芯模拟体气-液两相试验工况下流动与传热特性的数值模拟

针对医用同位素生产堆(MIPR)堆芯试验模拟体气-液两相试验工况,选取模拟体的1/20作为计算对象,采用非结构化网格方法进行模型网格划分,运用CFD技术进行数值模拟计算研究,同时,对其流场、温度场分布状况及传热特性等进行了分析.计算结果与试验结果的比较分析表明,两者吻合较好.