Hydrodynamic Study Using CFD Simulations in a Horizontal Two-Phase Flow Through Sudden Contraction

Ibtissem Belgacem; Y. Salhi; E-K. Si-Ahmed

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Hydrodynamic Study Using CFD Simulations in a Horizontal Two-Phase Flow Through Sudden Contraction

Ibtissem Belgacem, Y. Salhi, E-K. Si-Ahmed

Published in American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Received: 31 October 2016 Accepted: 29 November 2016 Published: 26 December 2016

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Two-phase flows are encountered in a wide range of industrial application. In the present work, two-phase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations, using Eulerian–Eulerian model and commercial CFD package FLUENT 6.3, were employed to calculate pressure drops caused by abrupt flow area contraction in small circular pipes for two-phase flow of air and water mixtures at room temperature and near atmospheric pressure. The pressure drop is determined by extrapolating the computed pressure profiles upstream and downstream of the contraction. Variables studied include: gas and liquid velocities, and pipe contraction ratio. The numerical results were validated against experimental data from the literature and are found to be in good agreement. Our findings could be useful in designing pipeline.

Published in	American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.12
Page(s)	8-16
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Two Phase Flow, Pressure Drop, CFD, VOF, Theoretical Models

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Ibtissem Belgacem

LMFTA Faculty of Physique, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria
Y. Salhi

LMFTA Faculty of Physique, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria
E-K. Si-Ahmed

LMFTA Faculty of Physique, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria

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Ibtissem Belgacem, Y. Salhi, E-K. Si-Ahmed. Hydrodynamic Study Using CFD Simulations in a Horizontal Two-Phase Flow Through Sudden Contraction. Am J Mech Ind Eng. 2016;2(1):8-16. doi: 10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.12

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