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The basic concept of the drift-flux model is to consider the mixture as a whole, rather than two phases separately. It is clear that the drift-flux model formulation will be simpler than the two-fluid model, however it requires some drastic constitutive assumptions causing some of the important characteristics of two-phase flow to be lost. However, it is exactly this simplicity of the drift-flux model that makes it very useful in many engineering applications.
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Ishii, M., Hibiki, T. (2011). Drift-Flux Model. In: Thermo-Fluid Dynamics of Two-Phase Flow. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7985-8_13
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