Coursecode: wb1420
Coursename: Multiphase flow and Heat Transfer

DUT creditpoints: 2
ECTS creditpoints: 3

Subfaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology

Lecturer(s): prof. Hunt.

Tel.: 015-2782891

Catalog data:
Fluid mechanics, Heat Transfer, Twophase flow, Multiphase flow, modelling of gas/liquid flow, flow patterns, boiling, fluid/particle flow, bubbles.

Courseyear: 3, 4
Semester: 0/0/0/2/2
Hours p/w: 2
Other hours: 2
Assessment: Written
Assessm.period(s): 5, 6
(see academic calendar)

Prerequisites: wb1220, wb1320

Follow up: st453

Detailed description of topics:

  • Basic equations for Newtonian fluids: Continuity equation, Navier-Stokes equations, Energy equation, dimensionless numbers for a one-phase system

  • Two-phase gas/liquid flow: surface tension, instabilities, slip and phase hold-up, superficial- and actual velocities, flow patterns in horizontal- and vertical tubes

  • Modelling of twophase flow: basic equations for the two-fluid model, closing relations, dimensionless numbers for multiphase systems

  • One-dimensional modelling of gas/liquid flow: homogeneous flow, Lockhart-Martinelli correlation, dispersed bubble flow, stratified flow, annular(-dispersed) flow, intermittent flow, closing relations for 1D, flow pattern dependent, models

  • Angle dependent flow-pattern diagram for gas/liquid flow: stratified/non-stratified transition, stratified-smooth/stratified-wavy transition, conditions for annular(-mist) flow, conditions for bubble flow, intermittent flow pattern, applications

  • Dispersed gas/liquid flow: bubble growth and -size, droplet growth and -size, terminal velocities of bubbles and drops in stagnant fluid, bubbles in turbulent flow-field, drops in turbulent flow-field

  • Heat transfer at boiling processes: onset of boiling, nucleate boiling, critical heatflux, film-boiling, pool-boiling

  • Isothermal fluid/particle flows: dimensionless numbers, beginning of sediment transport, flow through fixed beds, particulate fluidization, aggregative fluidization.

Course material:

R.V.A. Oliemans, Meerfasenstroming en Warmteoverdracht, delen I en II; Collegedictaat faculteit der Werktuigbouwkunde en Maritieme Techniek, TU-Delft, 1995.

References from literature:

  • G. Hetsroni (ed.), "Handbook of Multiphase Systems", Hemisphere, New York, 1982, ISBN 0-07-028460-1

  • G.B. Wallis, "One-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow", McGraw Hill, New York, 1969.

  • P.B. Whalley, "Boiling, Condensation and Gas/Liquid Flow", Clarendon Press, Oxford (1987).

Remarks (specific information about assesment, entry requirements, etc.):

This course will be examined in June and August each year.

Goals:

This course is designed to describe isothermal gas/liquid flow and particle/fluid flow and heat transfer at boiling processes. Furthermore it provides a concise summary of steady two-phase flow methods that are currently considered most reliable for application in process- and upstream oil/gas industry.

Computer use:

No computers are used.

Laboratory project(s):

No practical work has to be done.

Design content:

The course provides methods for the design of two-phase processes equipment.

Percentage of design: 25 %