Drop entrainment in two-phase non concurrent film flow

Abstract

© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. When the motion vectors of the media are collinear, well-known experimentally obtained empirical criteria are used to assess the conditions for the drop entrainment by the gas flow from the surface of a moving liquid film. However, blowing a liquid film at an angle with gas causes a tangential component in the film movement, which is an additional factor affecting its thickness and the velocity profile. The paper presents the correctness of the criterion of the conditions for the drop entrainment and the effect of the noncollinearity of the vectors of the media counterflow on the dynamics of a liquid film estimated from the results of numerical simulation.