Mist flow is a flow regime of two-phase gas-liquid flow. It occurs at very high flow rates and very high flow quality. Characteristics of mist flow. Thermal Engineering
Mist Flow – Vertical Tubes
Mist flow is a flow regime of two-phase gas-liquid flow. It occurs at very high flow rates and very high flow quality. This conditions causes, that liquid film flowing on the channel wall is thinned by the shear of the gas core on the interface until it becomes unstable and is destroyed. The flow core in the mist flow entrains all the liquid as droplets in the gas phase. Droplets may wet the tube wall, but this occurs intermittently and only locally. In the heated channel, the presence of mist flow regime is accompanied with significantly higher wall temperatures and high fluctuation of wall temperatures.
Sketches of flow regimes for two-phase flow in a vertical pipe. Source: Weisman, J. Two-phase flow patterns. Chapter 15 in Handbook of Fluids in Motion, Cheremisinoff N.P., Gupta R. 1983, Ann Arbor Science Publishers.
The vertical flow regime map of Hewitt and Roberts (1969) for flow in a 3.2cm diameter tube, validated for both air/water flow at atmospheric pressure and steam/water flow at high pressure. Source: Brennen, C.E., Fundamentals of Multiphase Flows, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0521 848040
Mist Flow – Horizontal Tubes
Mist flow is a flow regime of two-phase gas-liquid flow. It occurs at very high flow rates and very high flow quality. This conditions causes, that liquid film flowing on the channel wall is thinned by the shear of the gas core on the interface until it becomes unstable and is destroyed. The flow core in the mist flow entrains all the liquid as droplets in the gas phase. Droplets may wet the tube wall, but this occurs intermittently and only locally. In the heated channel, the presence of mist flow regime is accompanied with significantly higher wall temperatures and high fluctuation of wall temperatures.
Sketches of flow regimes for two-phase flow in a horizontal pipe. Source: Weisman, J. Two-phase flow patterns. Chapter 15 in Handbook of Fluids in Motion, Cheremisinoff N.P., Gupta R. 1983, Ann Arbor Science Publishers.
A flow regime map for the flow of an air/water mixture in a horizontal, 2.5cm diameter pipe at 25◦C and 1bar. Solid lines and points are experimental observations of the transition conditions while the hatched zones represent theoretical predictions. Source: Mandhane, J.M., Gregory, G.A. and Aziz, K.A. (1974). A flow pattern map for gas-liquid flow in horizontal pipes. Int. J. Multiphase Flow
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See also:
Two-phase Flow
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