CHAI Lei, XIA Guodong, LI Jian, et al. Flow pattern and evolvement characteristics of two-phase flow in microchannel with periodic expansion-constriction cross sections[J]. CIESC Journal, 2013, (6): 2036-2042.
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CHAI Lei, XIA Guodong, LI Jian, et al. Flow pattern and evolvement characteristics of two-phase flow in microchannel with periodic expansion-constriction cross sections[J]. CIESC Journal, 2013, (6): 2036-2042.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2013.06.019.
Flow pattern and evolvement characteristics of two-phase flow in microchannel with periodic expansion-constriction cross sections
the gas-liquid two-phase flow pattern and evolvement characteristics in a microchannel with periodic expansion-constriction cross sections were investigated experimentally by means of IDT high-speed camera mounted together with a Nikon microscope.The observed flow patterns were intermittent flow and separated flow.For intermittent flow
gas scattered in liquid phase or liquid scattered in gas phase
and the two forms appeared in turn.For separated flow
gas flowed mainly along the wall side of gas inlet
and liquid flowed mainly along the liquid side of water inlet.There was an obvious interface between two phases and the interface fluctuated along the flow direction.According to gas phase and liquid phase superficial velocities
flow pattern maps were drawn and correlations for describing flow pattern transition in the newly proposed microchannels were obtained.It was found that for a given liquid phase superficial velocity
the flow pattern transition gas phase superficial velocity for the microchannel with triangular reentrant cavities was slightly smaller than that for the microchannel with fan-shaped reentrant cavities.