An accurate and simplified model of flow characteristics in capillary tubes is necessary for intensive study on the system performance of refrigeration plants equipped with capillary tubes. Especially
the modelling of two-phase flow in capillary tubes is important and difficult. In this paper
a novel general integral model of two-phase flow in capillary tubes is developed. The comparison with the distributed-parameter model of capillary tube using the refrigerants R12
R134a and R600a as working fluids turns out to be satisfactory. The results show that the recommended integral model is within 3.4% maximum deviation and 1% mean deviation. In computation speed
it is at least one order of magnitude faster than the distributed - parameter model.