Review on vertical gas–liquid slug flow

AO Morgado, JM Miranda, JDP Araújo… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vertical slug flow is characterized by the rise of long bullet-shaped gas bubbles with a
diameter almost matching that of the tube-Taylor bubbles. Liquid slugs separate consecutive …

Critical review of vertical gas-liquid slug flow: An insight to better understand flow hydrodynamics' effect on heat and mass transfer characteristics

SG Holagh, WH Ahmed - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Slug flow is a dynamically complex two-phase flow pattern. A wide variety of industrial gas-
liquid systems operate under slug flow conditions for not only flow transportation purposes …

Characterizing the development of gravity-driven slug flows using high-speed imaging and PIV-PLIF techniques

SG Holagh, WH Ahmed - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2025 - Elsevier
Although develo** gravity-driven slug flow frequently occurs in oil and gas, and energy
systems, its development dynamics remain underexplored; this gap, in turn, has left the …

Characterization of slug formation towards the performance of air-liquid segmented flow

M Termühlen, B Strakeljahn, G Schembecker… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increased attention towards continuous processes in, eg reaction or crystallization has
put emphasis towards gas-liquid two-phase flow and especially towards slug flow. The …

Investigation of Taylor bubble behavior in upward and downward vertical and inclined pipe flows

A Aql, E Al-Safran - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The Taylor bubble behavior in two-phase flow is critical for various engineering applications,
including momentum, heat, and mass transfer efficiencies. Therefore, understanding the …

Experimental analysis of downward liquid-gas slug flow in slightly inclined pipes

RLP Rodrigues, D Bertoldi, EN dos Santos… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2019 - Elsevier
Downward gas-liquid slug flow occurs in hilly-terrain pipelines and is frequently observed in
oil and gas transportation lines. The onset of this kind of flow owes to instabilities generated …

Prediction of multiphase flows with sharp interfaces using anisotropic mesh optimisation

A Obeysekara, P Salinas, CE Heaney… - … in Engineering Software, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose an integrated, parallelised modelling approach to solve complex multiphase
flow problems with sharp interfaces. This approach is based on a finite-element, double …

Simulation of slug flow systems under laminar regime: Hydrodynamics with individual and a pair of consecutive Taylor bubbles

JDP Araújo, JM Miranda, J Campos - Journal of Petroleum science and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Introduction Slug flow is an extremely important gas–liquid flow pattern that can be
frequently found in oil extraction processes causing instabilities and randomness in the …

Numerical investigation of the stability of bubble train flow in a square minichannel

MC Öztaskin, M Wörner, HS Soyhan - Physics of Fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The stability of a train of equally sized and variably spaced gas bubbles that move within a
continuous wetting liquid phase through a straight square minichannel is investigated …

Vertical slug flow in laminar regime in the liquid and turbulent regime in the bubble wake—comparison with fully turbulent and fully laminar regimes

TS Mayor, A Pinto, J Campos - Chemical Engineering Science, 2008 - Elsevier
An experimental and simulation study on free bubbling vertical slug flow in laminar regime in
the main liquid and turbulent regime in the near-wake bubble region is reported. A non …