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标题：Comparative analysis of gas–liquid flow in T-junction microchannels with different inlet orientations
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作者：Dongren Liu ; Xiang Ling ; Hao Peng 等
期刊名称：Advances in Mechanical Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1687-8140
电子版ISSN：1687-8140
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：3
DOI：10.1177/1687814016637329
语种：English
出版社：Sage Publications Ltd.
摘要：In this study, a comparative analysis of two-phase flow in T-junction microchannels with different inlet orientations was carried out. Based on computational fluid dynamics and the volume-of-fluid model, bubble size, bubble velocities, and pressure distributions were analyzed. The numerical algorithm was validated with the experimental observations from former literatures; the results show that when the capillary number, Ca, is low, the length of gas and liquid slug in the symmetric T-junction is higher than that in the cross-flow T-junction. The effect of different forces acting on the slugs during the process of bubble formation was studied by investigating the velocity gradient and pressure distribution in the mixing zone. The result shows that the shear stress in cross-flow T-junction is over two times of that in T-junction with two symmetric inlets under the same operating conditions, which indicates that the size of bubble and liquid slug depends on the shear stress at low Ca number.
关键词：Fluid dynamics; multi-phase flow; microsystems; computational fluid dynamics; mathematical modeling