Gas/liquid flow behaviours in a downward section of large diameter vertical serpentine pipes

Almabrok, Almabrok Abushanaf; Aliyu, A. M.; Lao, Liyun; Yeung, Hoi

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dc.contributor.author	Almabrok, Almabrok Abushanaf
dc.contributor.author	Aliyu, A. M.
dc.contributor.author	Lao, Liyun
dc.contributor.author	Yeung, Hoi
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-24T11:11:50Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-24T11:11:50Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10-09
dc.identifier.citation	Almabrok A. Almabrok, Aliyu M. Aliyu, Liyun Lao, Hoi Yeung, Gas/liquid flow behaviours in a downward section of large diameter vertical serpentine pipes, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Volume 78, January 2016, Pages 25-43	en_UK
dc.identifier.issn	0301-9322
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2015.09.012.
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10843
dc.description.abstract	An experimental study on air/water flow behaviours in a 101.6 mm i.d. vertical pipe with a serpentine configuration is presented. The experiments are conducted for superficial gas and liquid velocities ranging from 0.15 to 30 m/s and 0.07 to 1.5 m/s, respectively. The bend effects on the flow behaviours are significantly reduced when the flow reaches an axial distance of 30 pipe diameters or more from the upstream bend. The mean film thickness data from this study has been used to compare with the predicted data using several falling film correlations and theoretical models. It was observed that the large pipe data exhibits different tendencies and this manifests in the difference in slope when the dimensionless film thickness is plotted as a power law function of the liquid film Reynolds number.	en_UK
dc.language.iso	en	en_UK
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en_UK
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dc.subject	Downward gas/liquid flow	en_UK
dc.subject	Flow development	en_UK
dc.subject	Bend	en_UK
dc.subject	Liquid film thickness	en_UK
dc.subject	Void fraction	en_UK
dc.title	Gas/liquid flow behaviours in a downward section of large diameter vertical serpentine pipes	en_UK
dc.type	Article	en_UK