Abstract
A new two-fluid model with the influence of inter-phase velocity-slip taken into account was proposed and a modified realizable k-ε turbulence model was put forward as well to make the equation set of two-fluid model closed. Based on this two-fluid model, numerical simulations were conducted on typical wet steam flow in different cases. The good consistency of numerical result and the experimental result infers that this two-fluid model is provided with high accuracy and wide applicability. The flow field analysis also shows that there exist several particular positions along the flow direction. These particular positions illustrate the development mechanism of nucleation and droplet growing. In addition, further discussion on the flow in cascade then indicates that the occurrence of condensation has strong impact on the flow while the impact of inter-phase velocity-slip is relatively weaker. The composition of total pressure loss is present here, the majority of total pressure loss brought by condensation is about 8.78% of inlet total pressure while the inter-phase velocity-slip just results in a small part of about 0.42% of inlet total pressure, the rest of the total pressure loss is caused by pneumatic factors and this part is about 3.95% of inlet total pressure. In addition, discussion about the turbulence then shows that the turbulence intensity in two-phase flow is higher than that in single-phase flow.
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