Flow visualization of two phase flow pattern of steam during condensation process in separate horizontal quartz micro-tubes with inner diameter ranging from 70-675 m was conducted. Two main kinds of flow patterns were observed: annular flow and slug flow, which both were nearly symmetrical. The annular flow also can be divided into two kinds: annular flow and annular-wave flow. The effects of t...

Abstract A novel method for measuring the interfacial liquid film thickness between immiscible liquids of a slug/droplet in a micropipe is proposed. This method is capable of measuring an oil slug/droplet in water with the relative refractive index (m) between the immiscible liquids very close to one in a capillary tube. Unlike the measurement configuration for an air slug in water, an optical ...

Different flow patterns of downward gas-liquid two-phaseflow using simple mixer are studied in an experimental manner. An experimental setup is designed and fabricated to allow the visual observation of downward two-phase flow patterns and their transitions. The flow patterns are recorded by a 1200 frames per second high speed video camera. The quality of downward two-phase flow patterns photos...

The multiphase flow of two immiscible liquids in a circular capillary micromixer was investigated numerically. The mass transfer characteristics of this flow pattern are of primary interest in this study. A simple neutralization titration reaction was chosen as the basis. The liquid-liquid two phase slug flow was formed during the mixing. The mixing was quantified for different volume flow rate...

A shear viscosity model for the underfill flow is proposed based on slug flow, which is appropriate in the case of neutrally buoyant particles. However, the filling particles used in practice are often heavier than the liquid carriers. The effect of non-neutrally buoyant particles is investigated in this work. The flow of dense slurry in which the filling particles are heavier than the liquid c...

This article proposes a numerical resolution of a one-dimensional (1D), transient, simplified two-fluid model regularized with an artificial diffusion term for modeling stratified, wavy and slug flow in horizontal and nearly horizontal pipes. Artificial diffusion is introduced to prevent the unbounded growth of instabilities where the 1D two-fluid model is ill-posed. We propose a method to set ...

The transition from stratified to intermittent air-water two-phase flow was investigated experimentally, by visualization and pressure drop signals analyses, in a 30 mm ID pipe. flow’s onset found be mainly dependent on the liquid superficial velocity pipe diameter. Plug flow, Less Aerated Slug (LAS) or Highly (HAS) flows could obtained gas grounds. available models, compared experiments, not p...

A capacitance measurement system is developed for the measurement of gas-liquid two-phase flow in glass micro-pipes with inner diameters of 3.96, 2.65 and 1.56 mm, respectively. As a typical flow regime in a micro-pipe two-phase flow system, slug flow is chosen for this investigation. A capacitance sensor is designed and a high-resolution and high-speed capacitance measurement circuit is used t...