Pressure gradient estimation for two-phase gas/liquid flow in a vertical pipe using CFD

Author

Xiong, Xiaodong ; Rahman, Md Arifur ; Zhang, Ye

Author_Institution

Process Eng., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John´s, NL, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The objective of this study is to predict the pressure gradient for gas-liquid bubbly flow along a vertical pipeline by using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) numerical simulation. The CFD simulation is compared with experimental data obtained from the literature, which involves a vertical pipe with a length of 1.52 m and an inner diameter of 11.68 mm. Empirical correlations available in the literature are also applied for validation of simulation results. Pressure gradients predicted by the CFD model show a good agreement with the experimental data.

Keywords

bubbles; computational fluid dynamics; flow simulation; numerical analysis; pipe flow; pipelines; two-phase flow; CFD simulation; computational fluid dynamics numerical simulation; empirical correlations; gas-liquid bubbly flow; inner diameter; pressure gradient estimation; two-phase gas/liquid flow; vertical pipe length; vertical pipeline; Computational fluid dynamics; Correlation; Equations; Liquids; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Predictive models; CFD; gas-liquid bubbly flow; pressure gradient; vertical pipe;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oceans - St. John's, 2014

Conference_Location

St. John´s, NL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4920-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003286

Filename

7003286