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Title: Drag reduction in two-phase gas-liquid flows

Journal Article · · A.I.Ch.E. J.; (United States)

A considerable amount of drag reduction is observed in various flow regimes for two-phase gas-liquid flow of drag reducing fluids. Various attempts have been made to correlate the amount of drag reduction, but comparison with single phase flow of drag reducing fluids has not been done in a satisfactory manner. It is well known that single phase flow of drag reducing fluids exhibits a diameter effect. In order to account for this, a plot of percent drag reduction versus friction velocity, ..mu../sup */, in the absence of a polymer additive gives a simple method of estimating the amount of drag reduction for a given flow rate and pipe diameter. For two-phase flow no such comparison has been made.

Research Organization:
Dept. of Chemical Technology, Univ. of Bombay, Matunga, Bombay 400 019
OSTI ID:
5520844
Journal Information:
A.I.Ch.E. J.; (United States), Vol. 33:2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English