%L scholars1480
%P 3847-3852
%A M. Sorgun
%A R.E. Osgouei
%A M.E. Ozbayoglu
%A A.M. Ozbayoglu
%X Although flow of two-phase fluids is studied in detailed for pipes, there exists a lack of information about aerated fluid flow behavior inside a wellbore. This study aims to simulate gasliquid flow inside horizontal eccentric annulus using an Eulerian-Eulerian computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for two-phase flow patterns i.e., dispersed bubble, dispersed annular, plug, slug, churn, wavy annular. To perform experiments using air-water mixtures for various in-situ air and water flow rates, a flow loop was constructed. A digital high speed camera is used for recording each test dynamically for identification of the liquid holdup and flow patterns. Results showed that CFD model predicts frictional pressure losses with an error less than 20 for all two-phase flow patterns when compared with experimental data. Copyright © 2011 by ASME.
%J ASME-JSME-KSME 2011 Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, AJK 2011
%K Air-water mixture; Dispersed bubbles; Eccentric annuli; Eulerian-Eulerian computational fluid dynamics; Experimental datum; Frictional pressure loss; Gas liquid flows; Two-phase flow patterns, Experiments; Flow patterns; Two phase flow, Computational fluid dynamics
%D 2011
%C Hamamatsu
%T Gas-liquid flow through horizontal eccentric annuli: CFD and experiments compared
%V 1
%O cited By 12; Conference of ASME-JSME-KSME 2011 Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, AJK 2011 ; Conference Date: 24 July 2011 Through 29 July 2011; Conference Code:98348
%N PARTS 
%R 10.1115/AJK2011-24007