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1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Development of a one-dimensional gas-liquid two-phase flow model for whole flow regime in a vertical pipe

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08455093
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fluid engineering
Research InstitutionKOBE UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SAKAGUCHI Tadashi  Kobe University, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (50031076)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HOSOKAWA Shigeo  Kobe University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 自然科学研究科, 助教授 (10252793)
TOMIYAMA Akio  Kobe University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 自然科学研究科, 助教授 (30211402)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1998
KeywordsGas-liquid two-phase flow / Two-phase flow model / Flow pattern / Void fluctuation / Spatial-evolution
Research Abstract

Though a space-time evolution is one of the most intrinsic natures of gas-liquid two-phase in a vertical pipe, there is little available numerical method for the prediction of the spatial evolution and the transition of flow regime. Detailed numerical methods such as an interface tracking method can predict detailed phase distributions, which play a dominant role on spatial evolution. These method however need models or assumptions on processes of spatial evolution such as bubble coalescence and clustering, and the application of these method to industrial design is not realistic due to the huge CPU time. The purpose of the present study is to develop a one-dimensional gas-liquid two-phase flow model for whole flow regime in a vertical pipe. In order to make up for the lack of database on spatial evolution, we carried out two-phase flow experiments in a vertical pipe, and investigated spatial evolution of volume-averaged void fraction, void fluctuation and flow pattern evolution caused … More by the bubble clustering and coalescence Phenomenological models for the spatial evolution were developed through the experimental results, and one-dimensional one-way bubble tracking simulation with these models was developed and evaluated.
It was confirmed through the experiments that (1) the spatial evolution of flow pattern is dominated by the bubble distributions rather than the mean void fraction, (2) bubble clustering plays a dominant role in the evolution, (3) bubble coalescence and bubble clustering are hindered by the presence of shear-induced turbulence, but they are enhanced with increasing the void fraction, (4) the rising velocity of a bubble cluster is almost equal to that of a Taylor bubble in the same size, (5) the impact of wake behind large bubble on the motion of small bubbles increases with decreasing the liquid flow rate, and (6) the void fluctuation increases along the flow direction due to the growth of bubble clusters and Taylor bubbles.
Phenomenological models were developed based on the experimental results, and applied them to one-dimensional bubble tracking method. The developed simulation method includes a model of radial distribution of bubbles, and the time for the simulation is almost the same with the actual phenomena. The simulated flow pattern evolution, averaged void fraction and void fluctuation were agree well with the experimental results of two-phase flow in stagnant liquid, laminar and turbulent liquid flow. Less

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  • [Publications] Tomiyama,A.,et al.,: "A bubble tracking method for the prediction spatial-evoluation of bubble flow in a vertical pipe" 3rd International Conference on Multiphase Flow '98-Lyon. CD-ROM. (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tomiyama,A.,et al.,: "Spatial evoluation of developing air-water bubble flow in a vertical pipe" 2nd Int.Symp.on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Exp.(In Print). (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tomiyama,A.,et al.,: "Modeling and real-time simulation of a developing bubble flow in a vertical pipe" Japan-UK Mini Workshop. (1999)

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  • [Publications] 玉井秀定 他3名: "鉛直管内気液二相流の統計的特性に関する研究" 混相流シンポジウム'97. 231-234 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 三好弘二 他3名: "鉛直管内分散性気液二相流の3次元気泡追跡法による解析" 混相流シンポジウム'97. 39-42 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 玉井秀定 他3名: "鉛直管内気液二相流の流動様式発展に関する研究" 混相流シンポジウム'98. 199-200 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tomiyama, A., et al.: "A bubble tracking method for the prediction of spatial-evolution of bubble flow in a vertical pipe" 3rd International Conference on Multiphase Flow '98-Lyon. CD-ROM. (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tomiyama, A., et al.: "Spatial evolution of developing air-water bubble flow in a vertical pipe" 2nd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation. (In Print). (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tomiyama, A., et al.: "Modeling and real-time simulation of a developing bubble flow in a vertical pipe" Japan-UK Mini Workshop. (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tamai, H., et al.: "A study on statistic properties of gas-liquid two-phase flow in a vertical pipe" Japanese Symposium on Multiphase Flow '97. 231-234 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Miyoshi, K., et al.: "A three-dimensional bubble tracking simulation of dispersed air-water two-phase flow in a vertical pipe" Japanese Symposium on Multiphase Flow '97. 39-42 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Tamai, H., et al.: "A study on spatial-evolution of gas-liquid two-phase flow in a vertical pipe" Japanese Symposium on Multiphase Flow '98. 199-200 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Miyoshi, K., et al: "A three-dimensional bubble tracking simulation of dispersed air-water two-phase flow in a vertical pipe" Japanese Symposium on Multiphase Flow '98. 27-28 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tamai, H., et al.: "A quasi-2D bubble tracking method for the prediction of dispersed gas-liquid two-phase flow in a vertical pipe" The 11th Computational Mechanics Conference. 377-378 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tamai, H., et al.: "Measurement of void fraction of a developing air-water bubble flow in a vertical pipe" The Second Organized Multiphase Flow Forum '98-Fukuoka. 57-63 (1998)

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