Sensitivity Analysis of the Wall Shear Model to the Correlations for Frequency and Slug Holdup in the Gas-Liquid Slug Flow in Pipes

Abstract:

The one-dimensional mixture model efficiently predicts gas-liquid flows dominated by gravity force. The advantages of the mixture model are the absence of interfacial terms and the reduced number of transport equations, but its weakness lies on the constitutive laws to predict the wall shear force of a gas-liquid mixture. The objective of this work is to realize a sensitivity analysis of the wall shear model (based on the intermittent behavior of the gas and liquid structures) to the correlations for frequency and slug holdup in the one-dimensional, steady state mixture model applied to an isothermal gas-liquid mixture flowing in the slug regime. The numerical results for the pressure gradient obtained here are compared against experimental data from previous work.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1104)
• Pages: 61-67
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1104.61
• Online since: May 2015
• Authors: Luiz Eduardo Melo Lima*, Eugênio Spanó Rosa
• Keywords: Correlations, Mixture Model, Slug Flow, Two Phase Flow, Wall Shear Stress

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