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Cellular properties of slug flow in vertical co-current gas-liquid flow: slug-churn transition; Caracteristiques cellulaires du regime a poches en ecoulement gaz-liquide co-courant vertical. Transition vers le regime destructure

Abstract

This research thesis reports the study and description of the structure of a slug flow regime in a co-current vertical cylindrical duct, and the characterization and prediction of its transition towards a slug-churn (de-structured) regime. Flow physical mechanisms highlighted by the measurement of two important dynamics variables (wall friction and thickness of liquid films) are related to hypotheses of cellular models. The author first proposes an overview of slug flow regimes: theoretical steady and one-dimensional analysis, mass assessment equations of cellular models, application to the assessment of the flow rate and of the thickness of the film surrounding the gas slug. In the second part, the author addresses the slug flow regime transition towards the slug-churn regime: assessment of the evolution of flow dynamic properties, use of average wall friction analysis to obtain a relevant transition criterion. The third part presents experimental conditions, and measurement methods: conductometry for thickness measurement, polarography for wall friction measurement, and gas phase detection by using an optic barrier or optic fibres [French] Les ecoulements gaz-liquide en conduite verticale presentent quatre configurations ou regimes d'ecoulement. Ce travail porte sur le regime a poches et sur la transition vers la configuration qui lui succede: le regime  More>>
Publication Date:
Dec 13, 1990
Product Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Report Number:
FRCEA-TH-7775
Resource Relation:
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Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; DUCTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW MODELS; FLOW RATE; FLUID MECHANICS; FRICTION; FRICTION FACTOR; LAYERS; MEASURING METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; THICKNESS; TUBES; TWO-PHASE FLOW; WALL EFFECTS
OSTI ID:
22574146
Research Organizations:
Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, 2 av. de la Foret-de-Haye, Pole technologique de Brabois, BP 3, 54501 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex (France); CEA, DEN-DM2S, Grenoble (France)
Country of Origin:
France
Language:
French
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: FR1700227018493
Availability:
Available from INIS in electronic form
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
238 page(s)
Announcement Date:
Mar 22, 2017

Citation Formats

Lusseyran, Francois. Cellular properties of slug flow in vertical co-current gas-liquid flow: slug-churn transition; Caracteristiques cellulaires du regime a poches en ecoulement gaz-liquide co-courant vertical. Transition vers le regime destructure. France: N. p., 1990. Web.
Lusseyran, Francois. Cellular properties of slug flow in vertical co-current gas-liquid flow: slug-churn transition; Caracteristiques cellulaires du regime a poches en ecoulement gaz-liquide co-courant vertical. Transition vers le regime destructure. France.
Lusseyran, Francois. 1990. "Cellular properties of slug flow in vertical co-current gas-liquid flow: slug-churn transition; Caracteristiques cellulaires du regime a poches en ecoulement gaz-liquide co-courant vertical. Transition vers le regime destructure." France.
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title = {Cellular properties of slug flow in vertical co-current gas-liquid flow: slug-churn transition; Caracteristiques cellulaires du regime a poches en ecoulement gaz-liquide co-courant vertical. Transition vers le regime destructure}
author = {Lusseyran, Francois}
abstractNote = {This research thesis reports the study and description of the structure of a slug flow regime in a co-current vertical cylindrical duct, and the characterization and prediction of its transition towards a slug-churn (de-structured) regime. Flow physical mechanisms highlighted by the measurement of two important dynamics variables (wall friction and thickness of liquid films) are related to hypotheses of cellular models. The author first proposes an overview of slug flow regimes: theoretical steady and one-dimensional analysis, mass assessment equations of cellular models, application to the assessment of the flow rate and of the thickness of the film surrounding the gas slug. In the second part, the author addresses the slug flow regime transition towards the slug-churn regime: assessment of the evolution of flow dynamic properties, use of average wall friction analysis to obtain a relevant transition criterion. The third part presents experimental conditions, and measurement methods: conductometry for thickness measurement, polarography for wall friction measurement, and gas phase detection by using an optic barrier or optic fibres [French] Les ecoulements gaz-liquide en conduite verticale presentent quatre configurations ou regimes d'ecoulement. Ce travail porte sur le regime a poches et sur la transition vers la configuration qui lui succede: le regime destructure (churn flow). Les mesures sont effectuees a 200D du point d'injection du gaz, dans une conduite de 12.2 mm de diametre et pour le couple de fluides eau-azote. Les deux principales grandeurs mesurees en fonction des flux d'entree sont: le frottement parietal instantane (methode electrochimique) et l'epaisseur de film instantanee (methode conductimetrique). Une detection optique simultanee de la presence des phases permet un traitement conditionnel de la base de donnees. Les caracteristiques de la cellule moyenne representative de chaque point de fonctionnement en sont deduites: longueur de la cellule, du bouchon de liquide et de la poche de gaz, frequence de passage des cellules ainsi que l'evolution selon une abscisse solidaire de la poche, du frottement parietal et de l'epaisseur de film. Ces resultats sont compares aux hypotheses et aux predictions des modelisations du regime a poches. On compare les dimensions de l'attracteur bati dans un pseudo-espace de phases a partir des signaux de frottement en regime a poches et en regime destructure. L'arret de l'augmentation de la valeur moyenne du frottement mesure au niveau de la poche, quand la vitesse du gaz croit, est interprete comme signature de la destabilisation du film. Un critere de transition en correspondance avec les modeles.}
place = {France}
year = {1990}
month = {Dec}
}