Abstract
Liquid film is an important carrier of mass and heat transfer in annular flow, and the parameter detection of which plays an important role in the energy metering of natural gas production processes and the safe and reliable operation of cooling and heating systems. In this paper, a liquid film velocity equation is derived based on the analysis of the heat balance equation between the liquid film and tube wall. According to the constant power principle, the thermal distributed flow measurement sensor is designed by using the multi-physical field coupling simulation technique According to the momentum balance equation of the Laurinat model, considering the pump mechanism of the disturbance wave and using magnitude comparison and stress balance, a liquid film thickness circumferential distribution model in the horizontal annular flow is proposed. Utilizing the model and designed sensor, the liquid film thickness of four locations (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°) measurements are obtained for 64 horizontal annular flow conditions. Laboratory results indicate that the mean absolute percent error of the model is 32.66% and the 82.81% relative error is within the ±30% error band.
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