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Experimental and Theoretical Study of Interface Characteristics of Gas–Liquid Stratified Flow in Horizontal Pipe at High Pressure

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Wave stratified flow is widely encountered in processing industry, the interface wave impacts heat and mass transfer between the fluids, and flow pattern transition from it to slug flow makes it difficult to deal with the processing fluids that transported by long pipelines especially. Meanwhile, the interface wave influences the viscous drag forces working on the fluids in the pipe, which is impacted by the characteristics of interface profile, such as wave length, amplitude and propagation speed. Experiment of air–water two-phase flow in horizontal pipe at different pressures (0.1 MPa, 2 MPa) are carried out, the influence of pressure on interface profile characteristics is studied, new models for wave length, amplitude, frequency and propagation speed are proposed and tested, and good performance is proved. Shear stress working on interface wave is theoretically calculated, influence of both fluids superficial velocities and pressure on it are studied, and its influence on wave propagation speed is formulated.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51527808, 51888103) and Chinese National Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2016ZX05028-004-002). The authors also wish to acknowledge the reviewers for the helpful remarks on improving this paper.

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    Yubo Wang, Yingjie Chang, Zhigang Liu, Xiangyuan Zhao & Liejin Guo

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Wang, Y., Chang, Y., Liu, Z. et al. Experimental and Theoretical Study of Interface Characteristics of Gas–Liquid Stratified Flow in Horizontal Pipe at High Pressure. Flow Turbulence Combust 105, 1249–1275 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-020-00116-2

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