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COBEM 2019
25th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Oil-Water Flow in Horizontal Pipelines: a Review
Submission Author:
Ronaldo Höhn , SP
Co-Authors:
Ronaldo Höhn, Marcelo Souza de Castro
Presenter: Ronaldo Höhn
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2019.COB2019-0287
Abstract
Liquid-liquid two-phase flows are present in numerous processes in nature and industry. Such flows have different flow patterns with different characteristics and their differences between the flow patterns have been studied experimentally and analytically by several authors. In addition to this, research with numerical simulations has been carried out, enabling the resolution of the general governing equations which are of great complexity for these flows. However, some different results and predictions are reported by the researchers, who were divergent in numerous hypotheses during the description of liquid-liquid flows in their simulations. Thus, this work consists of performing a literature review on the current state of liquid-liquid two-phase flows simulation studies, mainly at horizontal pipelines, highlighting important concepts for studies of such flows using numerical techniques. In addition to this, a numerical simulations study is carried out in order to obtain the best combination and hypotheses for simulation of two-phase oil and water flows in horizontal pipelines.
Keywords
Liquid-liquid flow, Flow patterns, two-phase flow models, Numerical simulation, M-CFD
