Development of Bubble Size Correlation for Adiabatic Forced Convective Bubbly Flow in Low Pressure Condition Using CFD Code

2020 
In a multidimensional two-phase flow analysis, bubble size significantly affects interfacial transfer terms such as mass, momentum, and energy. With regard to bubbly flow, the application of a simple correlation-type bubble size model presents certain advantages, including short calculation times and ease of usage. In this study, we propose a semi-theoretical correlation developed from a steady state bubble number density transport equation for predicting the distribution of local bubble size using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The coefficients of the new correlation were determined using the local bubble parameters obtained on the basis of three existing vertical air-water experiments. Finally, these were implemented in commercial CFD code and evaluated against experimental data, which showed that the proposed correlation exhibits good prediction capability for forced convective air-water bubbly flows under low pressure conditions.
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