S10  Fluidodinâmica de Escoamento Multifásico    Titulo: BUBBLE-BUBBLE INTERACTION IN HORIZONTAL TWO-PHASE SLUG FLOW   Resumo : ABSTRACT: MODELLING OF THE SLUG STRUCTURE REQUIRES A NEW EFFORT ON FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH. TO CLARIFY SOME ASPECTS OF THE HORIZONTAL SLUG FLOW, AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF TWO ISOLATED BUBBLES IN A SINGLE-PHASE LIQUID FLOW WAS PERFORMED. THIS PROCEDURE WAS ADOPTED TO AVOID THE OVERLAP OF DIFFERENT PHENOMENA INDUCED BY A TRAIN OF LONG BUBBLES. THE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY CONSISTS OF A 90-M HORIZONTAL PVC PIPE WITH INTERNAL DIAMETER OF 0,053 M. THE BEHAVIOUR OF TWO SINGLE AIR BUBBLES TRAVELLING IN A WATER FLOW WAS STUDIED. FOCUS WAS GIVEN ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE BUBBLES ON THE VELOCITY OF THE SECOND BUBBLE. THIS STUDY ALLOWS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISM OF OVERTAKING THAT TAKES PLACE RIGHT AFTER THE SLUG FORMATION AND THAT PRECEDES THE COALESCENCE OF BUBBLES IN A SLUG FLOW. THE RESULTS SHOW THAT BUBBLES PLACED BEHIND A LIQUID SLUG SMALLER THAN A CRITICAL VALUE MOVE FASTER THAN THE LEADING ONE. OTHERWISE, THEY MOVE SLOWER THAN THE LEADING ONE. KEY WORDS: TWO-PHASE FLOW, SLUG FLOW, FLOW STRUCTURE, INTERACTION BETWEEN BUBBLES    Autores : Fabre, Jean 0 Fagundes Netto, Jose Roberto 0 Peresson, Lucien 0     Trabalho Completo :   COBEM99 | Comissão  Organizadora | Palestras | Sessões Técnicas | Autor | Simpósios e Sessões Especiais | Revisores |  Título  dos  Trabalhos | Local