TWO PHASE FLOW IN CAPILLARY TUBES

Abstract

The flow of two phases, gas and liquid, has been studied in horizontal tubes of capillary diameter. The flow has been primarily studied in the regime where the' gas flows as long bubbles separated from the wall of the tube by a liquid film and from each other by slugs of liquid. In this regime the pressure drop, density and, to a certain extent, the thickness of the liquid film around a bubble have been correlated. The conditions under which the long bubble flow can exist and under which the correlations are valid have been determined. Of special interest is that the correlations should be valid in a zero gravity field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0402012

Entities

People

  • Mikio Suoo
  • Peter Griffith

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Annular Flow
  • Capillary Tubes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Diameters
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Froude Number
  • Gas Flow
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Reynolds Number
  • Surface Tension
  • Thickness
  • Two Dimensional
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Underwater engineering and Marine Technology.