Gas-liquid pipe flow under microgravity conditions: influence of tube diameter on flow patterns and pressure drops

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Gas-liquid flow experiments have been performed in small tubes of 19 mm, 10 mm and 6 mm diameter, during parabolic flights, for a range of superficial liquid velocities from 0.1 to 2 m/s and superficial gas velocities from 0.05 m/s to 10 m/s. Results are compared to those previously obtained by Colin et al., /1/, in a 40 mm i.d. tube. The flow patterns identified are: bubbly flow, slug flow and a pattern halfway between slug and annular flows. The main difference between the experiments in small tubes and the previous ones, concerns the transition between bubbly flow and slug flow, the role of coalescence and the wall friction factor. Coalescence is shown to play a major role in the transition from bubbly to slug flow. In particular at small Reynolds number coalescence seems to be partly inhibited. Single-phase flow correlations for wall shear stress underestimate the wall friction factor in the intermediate range of Reynolds number between laminar and turbulent flow.

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