Parametric analysis of two-phase flow instability in a channel with inlet and outlet hydraulic resistances

Abstract

The mechanism of low-frequency self-oscillating instability of a one-dimensional two-phase flow in a channel with inlet and outlet hydraulic resistances is considered. The mechanism is based on the sensitivity of the inlet flow rate of the liquid to the pressure variation inside the channel and the sensitivity of the pressure to the variation of the outlet gas flow rate (with a constant mass rate of the liquid-gas phase transition per unit volume). A spectral analysis of the stability of the steady solution of the boundary-value problem for a hyperbolic-type nonlinear system of equations is performed within the framework of a two-velocity model of a gas-liquid flow. Parametric boundaries of the region of instability are obtained. The existence of self-oscillations in this range of parameters is supported by a numerical solution of the unsteady boundary-value problem.