The prediction of frictional pressure drop in fully developed, turbulent, annular liquid-vapor flows in zero gravity using simulation experiments conducted on earth is described. The scheme extends the authors' earlier work on dispersed flows. The simulation experiments used two immiscible liquids of identical density, namely, water and n-butyl benzoate. Because of the lack of rigorous analytical models for turbulent, annular flows, the proposed scheme resorts to existing semiempirical correlations. Results based on two different correlations are presented and compared. Others may be used. It was shown that, for both dispersed and annular flow regimes, the predicted frictional pressure gradients in 0-g are lower than those in 1-g under otherwise identical conditions. The physical basis for this finding is given.


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    Title :

    Pressure drop in fully developed, turbulent, liquid-vapor annular flows in zero gravity


    Contributors:
    Sridhar, K. R. (author) / Chao, B. T. (author) / Soo, S. L. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1992-04-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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