scholarly journals MODELING OF A VENTILATED CAVITY BEHIND A STREAMLINED BODY

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
G. O. Voropaiev ◽  
V. I. Korobov ◽  
N. F. Dimitrieva
Keyword(s):  
Open Source Software ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Air Cavity ◽  
Streamlined Body ◽  
Ventilated Cavity ◽  
Gas Blowing ◽  
Positive Effect

The results of physical and numerical modeling of a ventilated air cavity behind a streamlined body are presented. The results of laboratory experiments to determine the amount of gas flowing from the ventilated cavity are presented. It is formed behind the cavitator depending on a number of geometric and dynamic parameters. Numerical simulation of non-stationary 3D two-phase flow was performed on the basis of open source software OpenFOAM. The influence of gas blowing parameters on the formation of an air cavity, size, shape and stability has been investigated. Good qualitative agreement with experimental data was obtained. It is shown that the thickness of the ventilated cavity is determined by the diameter of the cavitator regardless of the diameter of the blow hole, and the increase in velocity or gas flow rate has a positive effect on the length and stability of the formed cavity.

Experimental, Numerical, and Statistical Investigation of Two Phase Flow in a Cylindrical Perforation Tunnel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekhwaiter Abobaker ◽  
Abadelhalim Elsanoose ◽  
Mohammad Azizur Rahman ◽  
Faisal Khan ◽  
Amer Aborig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Through

Abstract Perforation is the final stage in well completion that helps to connect reservoir formations to wellbores during hydrocarbon production. The drilling perforation technique maximizes the reservoir productivity index by minimizing damage. This can be best accomplished by attaining a better understanding of fluid flows that occur in the near-wellbore region during oil and gas operations. The present work aims to enhance oil recovery by modelling a two-phase flow through the near-wellbore region, thereby expanding industry knowledge about well performance. An experimental procedure was conducted to investigate the behavior of two-phase flow through a cylindrical perforation tunnel. Statistical analysis was coupled with numerical simulation to expand the investigation of fluid flow in the near-wellbore region that cannot be obtained experimentally. The statistical analysis investigated the effect of several parameters, including the liquid and gas flow rate, liquid viscosity, permeability, and porosity, on the injection build-up pressure and the time needed to reach a steady-state flow condition. Design-Expert® Design of Experiments (DoE) software was used to determine the numerical simulation runs using the ANOVA analysis with a Box-Behnken Design (BBD) model and ANSYS-FLUENT was used to analyses the numerical simulation of the porous media tunnel by applying the volume of fluid method (VOF). The experimental data were validated to the numerical results, and the comparison of results was in good agreement. The numerical and statistical analysis demonstrated each investigated parameter’s effect. The permeability, flow rate, and viscosity of the liquid significantly affect the injection pressure build-up profile, and porosity and gas flow rate substantially affect the time required to attain steady-state conditions. In addition, two correlations obtained from the statistical analysis can be used to predict the injection build-up pressure and the required time to reach steady state for different scenarios. This work will contribute to the clarification and understanding of the behavior of multiphase flow in the near-wellbore region.

A Review of Wet Gas Flow Rate Measurements by Means of Single-Phase Meters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Munari ◽  
Michele Pinelli
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Flow Rate Measurement ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Wet Gas ◽  
Depth Analysis

Nowadays, wet gas flow rate measurement is still a challenge for experimental investigators and it is becoming an even more important issue to overcome in the turbomachinery sector as well, due to the increasing trend of wet compression applications in industry. The requirement to determine gas turbine performance when processing a wet gas leads to the need to understand certain phenomena, such as type of liquid flow re-distribution, and errors introduced when the mass flow rate measurement of a two-phase gas is attempted. Unfortunately, this measurement is often affected by the presence of liquid. Literature does not offer a unique definition of the term wet gas, although it is recognized that a wet gas can generally be defined as a two-phase gas in which the liquid percentage is lower than the gas one. This paper aims to collect and describe the main works present in literature in order to clarify i) the most used parameters that describe the types of wet gas, and ii) the types of errors and flow patterns which occur in different types of applications, in terms of pressure, percentage of liquid, Reynolds number, etc. Therefore, this literature review offers a comprehensive description of the possible effects of liquid presence in a wet gas and, and an in-depth analysis of the limitations and beneficial effects of current single-phase flow rate sensors in order to identify the best solutions, and empirical corrections available in literature to overcome this challenge.

scholarly journals Measurement of Gas-Oil Two-Phase Flow Patterns by Using CNN Algorithm Based on Dual ECT Sensors with Venturi Tube

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoqun Xu ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Xinmeng Yang ◽  
Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Venturi Tube ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Oil Flow ◽  
Oil Gas

In modern society, the oil industry has become the foundation of the world economy, and how to efficiently extract oil is a pressing problem. Among them, the accurate measurement of oil-gas two-phase parameters is one of the bottlenecks in oil extraction technology. It is found that through the experiment the flow patterns of the oil-gas two-phase flow will change after passing through the venturi tube with the same flow rates. Under the different oil-gas flow rate, the change will be diverse. Being motivated by the above experiments, we use the dual ECT sensors to collect the capacitance values before and after the venturi tube, respectively. Additionally, we use the linear projection algorithm (LBP) algorithm to reconstruct the image of flow patterns. This paper discusses the relationship between the change of flow patterns and the flow rates. Furthermore, a convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm is proposed to predict the oil flow rate, gas flow rate, and GVF (gas void fraction, especially referring to sectional gas fraction) of the two-phase flow. We use ElasticNet regression as the loss function to effectively avoid possible overfitting problems. In actual experiments, we compare the Typical-ECT-imaging-based-GVF algorithm and SVM (Support Vector Machine) algorithm with CNN algorithm based on three different ECT datasets. Three different sets of ECT data are used to predict the gas flow rate, oil flow rate, and GVF, and they are respectively using the venturi front-based ECT data only, while using the venturi behind-based ECT data and using both these data.

scholarly journals Improving the Performance of Surface Flow Generated by Bubble Plumes

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Hassan Abdulmouti
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Flow Structure ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Bubble Size ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Surface Flow ◽  
Bubble Motion ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Bubble Plumes

Gas–liquid two-phase flow is widely used in many engineering fields, and bubble dynamics is of vital importance in optimizing the engineering design and operating parameters of various adsorptive bubble systems. The characteristics of gas–liquid two-phase (e.g., bubble size, shape, velocity, and trajectory) remain of interest because they give insight into the dynamics of the system. Bubble plumes are a transport phenomenon caused by the buoyancy of bubbles and are capable of generating large-scale convection. The surface flow generated by bubble plumes has been proposed to collect surface-floating substances (in particular, oil layers formed during large oil spills) to protect marine systems, rivers, and lakes. Furthermore, the surface flows generated by bubble plumes are important in various types of reactors, engineering processes, and industrial processes involving a free surface. The bubble parameters play an important role in generating the surface flow and eventually improving the flow performance. This paper studies the effects of temperature on bubble parameters and bubble motion to better understand the relationship between the various bubble parameters that control bubble motion and how they impact the formation of surface flow, with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of the generation of surface flow (i.e., rapidly generate a strong, high, and wide surface flow over the bubble-generation system), and to control the parameters of the surface flow, such as thickness, width, and velocity. Such flow depends on the gas flow rate, bubble size (mean bubble diameter), void fraction, bubble velocity, the distance between bubble generator and free surface (i.e., water height), and water temperature. The experiments were carried out to measure bubble parameters in a water column using the image visualization technique to determine their inter-relationships and improve the characteristics of surface flow. The data were obtained by processing visualized images of bubble flow structure for the different sections of the bubble regions, and the results confirm that temperature, bubble size, and gas flow rate significantly affect the flow structure and bubble parameters.

scholarly journals Characterization of a Dual Chambered Two Phase Separator

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Klein ◽  
Cable Kurwitz ◽  
Frederick Best
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Scaling Analysis ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Space Applications ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
Phase Separator

Fuel cells have been used as a power source in the space shuttle for decades and are expected to be used in future higher power, larger systems. A new, passive gas/liquid phase separator for use in such large fuel cell space applications has been invented. It is a vortex separator designed to accommodate gas driven two phase flows. The work presented here is a first of a kind study of this newly invented separator examining the minimum inlet gas flow rate necessary for a stable vortex inside the separator as a function of separator size. A dimensional scaling analysis was done to predict this minimum inlet gas flow rate. Experiments were performed on the ground and in conjunction with the NASA microgravity simulating aircraft to validate modeling. The results of the experiments and scaling analysis are compared.

Dependence of Gas Bubble Diameter from the Gas Flow Rate in Upward Two-Phase Flow in an Inclined Flat Channel

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Anastasia Gorelikova ◽  
Oleg Kashinsky ◽  
Vyacheslav Randin ◽  
Aleksandr Chinak
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Bubbly Flow ◽  
Bubble Diameter ◽  
Flow Rate Ratio ◽  
Flat Channel ◽  
Gas Flow Rate ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Gas Liquid Flow

Experimental study of heat transfer and wall shear stress in an upward bubbly flow in an inclined flat channel is presented. The measurements were performed in the range of superficial liquid velocities 0.31.1 m/s and different values of volumetric gas flow rate ratio. Measurements of hydrodynamic structure were carried out by electrochemical method using a miniature sensors of friction. The values of average friction and heat transfer coefficient at different orientations of the channel were determined. It is shown that there is a significant dependence of friction and heat transfer on the channel inclination angle in the gas-liquid flow

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document