Abstract:
A self-constructed Tee-mixer experimental system was established. Glycerol-water solution with a glycerol mass fraction
φ of 80%, pure glycerol, and water were used as simulation media. Under the conditions of a core flow initial superficial velocity
Ug,100 ranging from 0.6 to 1.9 m/s and two annular flows with apparent viscosities
μw = 1.0×10
−3 Pa·s and
μg,80 = 1.8×10
−2 Pa·s, a high-speed camera was employed to capture the flow pattern evolution of the core fluid. Combined with CFD numerical simulation, the effects of
Ug,100 and annular flow apparent viscosity
μ on transport stability of core annular flow were systematically investigated. The results show that increasing
Ug,100 had no significant effect on the transport stability of the core flow when
Reg,100 > 3.4. For the core flow with
Reg,100 = 3.4, the peak amplitude of the dimensionless annular upper spacing
L1 within the frequency range of 0 ~ 500 Hz was 0.8×10
−1. For the core flow with other
Reg,100 values, the
L1 amplitudes remained within 0 ~ 0.6×10
−1, the peak values of the power spectral density (PSD) curves were relatively small, and the spectral widths ranged from 4.1×10
−8 to 3.3×10
−3. Increasing
μ effectively suppressed oscillations of the core flow and enhanced transport stability. When the annular flow Reynolds number
Reg,80 was 9.1×10
2, the amplitude distribution of
L1 within 0 ~ 50 Hz was only 0 ~ 6.0×10
−2, and the PSD spectral width was as low as 10
−7 ~ 10
−5. When the annular flow Reynolds number
Rew was 1.5×10
4, the amplitude oscillation range of
L1 within 0 ~ 50 Hz was 0 ~ 6.0×10
−2, and the PSD spectral width was approximately 10
−7 ~ 10
−3. This study provides a basis for optimizing annular flow mixing and transport processes.