Interest in detailed study and modelling of processes occurring in heat and mass exchange equipment is determined by the variety of designs and types of apparatuses, as well as the number of different ways to intensify the processes occurring in the equipment. The study of hydrodynamics of technological media and interaction of phases (components) on contact devices allows to optimise the geometry of designed equipment in order to increase the efficiency of heat and mass exchange processes. For modelling and analysis of the processes occurring in the technological equipment, the software complexes of computational fluid dynamics based on the methods of finite element analysis are often used, which allow to obtain contours of velocity, concentrations, temperature and pressure distribution only for single-phase media. However, modelling of technological processes implies description of hydrodynamics of multiphase media, which today in conditions of influence of centrifugal field and Coriolis acceleration on the nature of interaction of flows is a rather complicated task requiring significant computational resources, machine time and human resources. In connection with the above mentioned, it is of interest to develop an approach to modelling, combining simplicity of analytical dependencies and providing sufficient accuracy for calculation, determined by satisfactory agreement of the obtained results with literature data and results of numerical studies in software complexes of computational fluid dynamics. In this paper we propose a mathematical description of the solution of the hydrodynamic problem associated with the determination of the flow velocity of a two-phase flow in a profiled nozzle of a centrifugal apparatus. The basic differential equations and boundary conditions describing the flow of interacting phases in the profiled nozzle are given in the text.
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