Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2006
The paper describes an experimental study of the structure of air-water mixtures flowing vertically. Resistivity probe techniques were applied to measurements of local void properties, including void fraction, gas-phase convection velocity, bubble size distributions and space-time correlation functions. The axial development of flows for six different air-water mixing conditions were examined. Measurements up to 108 diameters from inlet indicated that, while flow patterns for the different mixers may be significantly different initially, the flows tend to develop towards a common structure determined only by the flux rates of the two phases. This was evidenced by the convergence of the void and velocity profiles, and particularly the bubble size distributions, as the flow developed. Estimates of bubble sizes for these more developed conditions, based on a balance of energy between the interfacial structure and the turbulent structure, gave values of diameters which were on average 13% above experimental values. The void distributions obtained for bubbly flow conditions, after an adequate settling length, appear to be characterized by a local minimum at the centre of the pipe.
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