1990 年 56 巻 528 号 p. 2318-2326
A gas-liquid two-phase flow in a capillary tube or a narrow passage is encountered in many applications, for example, the flow of coolant in evaporators of many kinds of heat exchangers. Sufficlent information on fundamental parameters, such as void fraction and pressure drop, however, are not available in designing such devices. In the present investigation, we made a detailed observation of the flow pattern of an air-water two-phase flow in a horizontal capillary tube with an inner diameter of 1.0mm to 4.9mm, and attempted to correlate and explain the behavior of the pressure drop changing with the flow rates of both phases by introducing a physical model.