3D Simulation of Local Diesel-water Two Phases Flow in a Tube with Elbow

DOI

10.2991/itms-15.2015.311How to use a DOI?

Keywords

CFD; VOF; Local two-phase flow; Water displacement

Abstract

Calculated local diesel-water two phases flow in a tube with elbow were compared with experimental data. The well-known volume of fluid (VOF) model combined with continuum surface tension (CSF) model and an interface geometric reconstruction method was used to simulate the flow phenomena by a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. The simulated flow pattern, critical oil superficial velocity and water average velocity are in good agreement with the experiments, and reveal why severe internal corrosion occurs in some spots of pipelines. Hence, the water deposited in pipeline could be flushed out only when the oil flow rate exceeds the critical value.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - G.L. Xu
AU  - L.X. Cai
AU  - Z.L. Wang
AU  - C.L. Fu
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - 3D Simulation of Local Diesel-water Two Phases Flow in a Tube with Elbow
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1273
EP  - 1276
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itms-15.2015.311
DO  - 10.2991/itms-15.2015.311
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