Phenomenological description of phase inversion

Journal article (2009)
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Process and Energy (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2009 The Author(s) ; American Physical Society
DOI: https://doi.org/doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.79.021403
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10-02-2009

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Physical Review E, 79 (2 Pt 1), 2009

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Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

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Process and Energy

Abstract

We propose an extended Ginzburg-Landau model for a description of the ambivalence region associated with the phenomenon of phase inversion observed in dispersed water-oil flow through a pipe. In analogy to the classical mean-field theory of phase transitions, it is shown that a good quantitative representation of the ambivalence region is obtained by using the injected phase volume fraction and a friction factor as the appropriate physical parameters.

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