Characteristics of pressure drop for singlephase and two-phase flow across sudden contraction in microtubes  

作　　者：LI Zhuo YU Jian MA ChongFang 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation,Ministry of Education of China,Key Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion,Beijing Education Commission,Beijing University of Technology,Beijing 100022,China

出　　处：《Science China(Technological Sciences)》2008年第2期162-169,共8页中国科学（技术科学英文版）

基　　金：the National Key Basic Research Program (Grant No. G2000026300);Beijing Open Fund

摘　　要：Single-phase and gas-liquid two-phase pressure drops caused by a sudden con-traction in microtubes were experimentally investigated at room temperature and atmospheric pressure,using nitrogen and water. The experimental results on pressure drop with a novel measurement method,the tiny gaps on the tubes,were used to characterize the sudden contraction pressure drop for tube diameters from 850 to 330 μm. The ranges of the gas and liquid superficial velocity were 2.55―322.08 and 0.98―9.78 m/s in the smaller tube respectively. In single-phase flow experiments,the contraction loss coefficients were larger than the experimental results from conventional tubes in the laminar flow. While in the turbulent flow,the contraction loss coefficients were slightly smaller than those from conventional tubes and predicted well by Kc=0.5×(1-σ2)0.75. In two-phase flow experiments,the slip flow model with a velocity slip ratio S=(ρL/ρG)1/3 showed a good prediction that reveals the occurrence of velocity slip. An empirical correlation for two-phase flow pressure drops caused by the sudden contraction was developed based on the proposed contraction loss coefficients correlation for single-phase flow and Mar-tinelli factor.Single-phase and gas-liquid two-phase pressure drops caused by a sudden contraction in microtubes were experimentally investigated at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, using nitrogen and water. The experimental results on pressure drop with a novel measurement method, the tiny gaps on the tubes, were used to characterize the sudden contraction pressure drop for tube diameters from 850 to 330 μm. The ranges of the gas and liquid superficial velocity were 2.55–322.08 and 0.98–9.78 m/s in the smaller tube respectively. In single-phase flow experiments, the contraction loss coefficients were larger than the experimental results from conventional tubes in the laminar flow. While in the turbulent flow, the contraction loss coefficients were slightly smaller than those from conventional tubes and predicted well by K c=0.5×(1?σ2)0.75. In two-phase flow experiments, the slip flow model with a velocity slip ratio S=(ρL/ρG)1/3 showed a good prediction that reveals the occurrence of velocity slip. An empirical correlation for two-phase flow pressure drops caused by the sudden contraction was developed based on the proposed contraction loss coefficients correlation for single-phase flow and Martinelli factor.

关 键 词：MICROTUBE SUDDEN CONTRACTION pressure measurement loss COEFFICIENTS single-and TWO-PHASE flow 

分 类 号：TB126[理学—工程力学]