Several studies on gas-liquid pipe flows in micro gravity have been performed They were motivated by the technical problems arising in the design of the thermohydraulic loops for the space applications. Most of the studies were focused on the determination of the flow pattern, wall shear stress, heat transfer and phase fraction and provided many empirical correlations. Unfortunately some basic mechanism are not yet well understood in micro gravity. For example the transition from bubbly to slug flow is well predicted by a critical value of the void fraction depending on an Ohnesorge number but the criteria of transition cannot take into account the pipe length and the bubble size at the pipe inlet. To improve this criteria, a physical model of bubble coalescence in turbulent flow is used to predict the bubble size evolution along the pipe in micro gravity, but it is still limited to bubble smaller than the pipe diameter and should be extended to larger bubbles to predict the transition to slug flow. Another example concerns the radial distribution of the bubbles in pipe flow, which control the wall heat and momentum transfers. This distribution is very sensitive to gravity. On earth it is mainly controlled by the action of the lift force due to the bubble drift velocity. In micro gravity in absence of bubble drift, the bubbles are dispersed by the turbulence of the liquid and the classical model fails in the prediction of the bubble distribution. The first results of experiments and numerical simulations on isolated bubbles in normal and micro gravity conditions are presented They should allow in the future improving the modelling of the turbulent bubbly flow in micro gravity but also on earth.


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    Titel :

    Two-phase bubbly flows in microgravity: some open questions


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Zweiphasen-Blasenströmungen in der Mikrogravitation. Offene Fragen


    Beteiligte:
    Colin, C. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2002


    Format / Umfang :

    6 Seiten, 20 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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