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The mechanism for transporting liquid from the bottom of the pipe to the top still to be established in the prediction of the film thickness distribution in horizontal annular two-phase flow. To resolve this issue, using five parallel-wire conductance probes, time records of local liquid film thickness at five circumferential positions were collected. The characteristics of circumferential liquid film thickness profiles and its variation with gas and liquid velocities were obtained. The basic features of probability distribution function, probability density function, auto-correlation, cross-correlation and power spectrum density function of the disturbance waves in annular flow were studied respectively. The characteristics of circumferential profiles of disturbance waves and its variation with gas and liquid velocities were presented.
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Li, W., Zhou, F., Li, R. et al. Experimental study on the characteristics of liquid layer and disturbance waves in horizontal annular flow. J. of Therm. Sci. 8, 235–242 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-999-0012-x
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