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The Effect of Droplets Evaporation on Turbulence Modification and Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Two-Phase Mist Flow Downstream of a Pipe Sudden Expansion

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Turbulent droplet-laden flow downstream of a sudden pipe expansion is numerically studied using an Eulerian two-fluid model. The model is used to investigate the effect of droplet evaporation on the particle dispersion and on the gas phase turbulence modification. Turbulence suppression in the case of evaporating droplets is hardly observed near the wall, and the level of turbulence tends to the corresponding value for the single-phase flow regime. In the flow core, where evaporation is insignificant, a decrease in the level of gas turbulence (to 20 % as compared to a single-phase flow) can be observed. The maximal effect of droplet evaporation is obtained in the wall region of the tube. A considerable increase in the maximal value of heat exchange on adding the evaporating droplets to the separated flow is shown (more than 1.5-fold as compared to the single-phase flow at a small value of droplet mass concentration of M L1≤ 0.05). The addition of the solid non-evaporating particles causes a slight increase in the maximum value of heat transfer in the case of small particles and a decrease in heat transfer in the case of large particles.

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This work is partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 14-19-00402). Authors thank Prof. Igor V. Derevich (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow) for simulating discussions.

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Pakhomov, M.A., Terekhov, V.I. The Effect of Droplets Evaporation on Turbulence Modification and Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Two-Phase Mist Flow Downstream of a Pipe Sudden Expansion. Flow Turbulence Combust 98, 341–354 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-016-9732-7

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