Toward modeling of CO₂ multi-phase flow patterns using a stochastic multi-scale approach

Abstract

Although pipe transport for storage of CO₂ captured from combustion exhaust is most efficient under supercritical conditions, subcritical multi-phase transport might sometimes occur intentionally or unintentionally. To adequately assess the consequences of subcriticality, the fidelity of subcritical multi-phase turbulent transport modeling, including confinement and buoyancy effects, must be improved. For this reason, an extension of one-dimensional turbulence, a stochastic turbulence modeling strategy, for application to this regime is underway. As a step toward this extension, a turbulent liquid jet issuing from a planar channel is simulated and results are compared with liquid jet measurements and channel flow numerical simulations. A previously noted turbulence decay scaling is reproduced, suggesting that the scaling is more robust than might be supposed, given the complicating factors. This work provides a basis for extension to the primary breakup regime of liquid jets and hence to subcritical multi-phase turbulence more generally.