Abstract:
Characteristics of air-water two-phase flow pressure drop in narrow rectangular channel subjected to periodical additional inertia force caused by rolling motion were investigated experimentally. Time averaged and transient additional pressure drop, gravitational pressure drop and frictional pressure drop were compared in three different flow regions, namely, laminar flow region (
Ref<800), transition flow region (800≤Ref≤1 400) and turbulent flow region (Ref >1 400). The results show that additional inertial force nearly has no influence on time-averaged frictional pressure drop in multiple rolling periods. Under periodical force condition (rolling period 16 s; rolling amplitude 30°), the superficial gas and liquid velocity, mass quality and frictional pressure drop fluctuate with the same periods of rolling motion, and the fluctuation amplitude of transient frictional pressure drop against its averaged value decrease as the gas and liquid velocity increase both in laminar and transition flow region. For the case in turbulent flow region, two-phase flow parameters have no evident periodical oscillation.