1. Two-Phase Flow Through Square and Circular Microchannels—Effects of Channel Geometry
- Author
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Yuichi Shibata, Masahiro Kawaji, Akimaro Kawahara, and Peter M.-Y. Chung
- Subjects
Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,Pressure drop ,Microchannel ,Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Instrumentation ,Flow (psychology) ,Flow map ,Two-phase flow ,Mechanics ,Adiabatic process ,Porosity - Abstract
An adiabatic experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of channel geometry on gas-liquid two-phase flow characteristics in horizontal microchannels. A water-nitrogen gas mixture was pumped through a 96 μm square microchannel and the resulting flow pattern, void fraction and frictional pressure drop data were compared with those previously reported by the authors for a 100 μm circular microchannel. The pressure drop data were best estimated using a separated-flow model and the void fraction increased non-linearly with volumetric quality, regardless of the channel shape. However, the flow maps exhibited transition boundaries that were shifted depending on the channel shape.
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- 2004