Experimental Investigation and Empirical Correlations of Heat Transfer in Different Regimes of Air–Water Two-Phase Flow in a Horizontal Tube
Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, ASME • 2017
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Authors
S.A. Nada
Keywords
Heat transfer correlation; air-water two phase flow; flow regimes
Journal
Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, ASME
Publisher
ASME
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
021004-021004-7
publication.type
International
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Abstract
The present article reports on experimental investigation of heat transfer to co-current air-water two phase flow in horizontal tube. The idea is to enhance heat transfer to the coolant liquid by air injection. Experiments were conducted for different air water ratios in constant temperature heated tube. Visual identification of flow regimes was supplemented. The effects of the liquid and gas superficial velocities and the flow regimes on the heat transfer coefficients were investigated. The results showed that the heat transfer coefficient generally increases with the increase of the injected air flow rate and the enhancement is more significant at low water flow rates. A maximum value of the two-phase heat transfer coefficient was observed at the transition to wavy-annular flow as the air superficial Reynolds number increases for a fixed water flow rate. It was noticed that the Nusselt number increased about three times due to the injection of air with at low water Reynolds. Correlations for heat transfer by air-water two phase flow were deduced in dimensionless form for the different flow regimes.
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