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A single cell of the gas-liquid slug flow was studied. The flow around an immobile gas slug in a downflow of liquid and under its bottom was measured. The values of the wall shear stress and its pulsations were measured by the electrodiffusion method depending on a distance from the slug nose. It is shown that in a liquid film around a slug, turbulent pulsations are damped in comparison with a single-phase liquid flow. In the bottom part of a slug, where vortices are detached, turbulent pulsations exceed significantly the single-phase ones.
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The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 07-08-00405a).
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Kashinsky, O.N., Kurdyumov, A.S. & Lobanov, P.D. Wall shear stress around a stationary gas slug in a downward liquid flow. Thermophys. Aeromech. 15, 85–89 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864308010071
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