Imperial College London
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ProfessorChristosMarkides

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Clean Energy Technologies
 
 
 
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@article{Cherdantsev:2019:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.07.013,
author = {Cherdantsev, AV and An, JS and Charogiannis, A and Markides, CN},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.07.013},
journal = {International Journal of Multiphase Flow},
pages = {237--258},
title = {Simultaneous application of two laser-induced fluorescence approaches for film thickness measurements in annular gas-liquid flows},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.07.013},
volume = {119},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper is devoted to the simultaneous application of two spatiotemporally resolved optical techniques capable of liquid film thickness measurements, namely Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) and Brightness-Based Laser-Induced Fluorescence (BBLIF), to co-current downward annular gas-liquid flows. A single laser sheet is used to excite the liquid film, which has been seeded with a fluorescent dye, along a longitudinal/vertical plane normal to the pipe wall. Two cameras, one for each technique, are placed at different angles to the plane of the laser sheet in order to recover, independently by the two techniques, the shape of the gas-liquid interface along this section. The effect of the angle between the laser sheet and the PLIF camera axis is also investigated. In film regions where the gas-liquid interface is smooth and flat, the conventional approach used for interpreting PLIF data is affected by total internal reflection of the fluorescent light at the free surface, or “mirror effect”, which leads to an overestimation of the film thickness that increases as the angle between the laser sheet and the camera axis is decreased. Nonetheless, local features such as light intensity maxima or minima are often located within the fluorescent signals that correctly identify the true interface, which in these conditions also coincides well with the BBLIF film-thickness measurement. When a correction for the mirror effect based on simple flat-film optical calculations is applied, this leads to PLIF results that correspond well to the true film thickness. Interestingly, it is further found that interfacial three-dimensionality, and in particular azimuthal/circumferential non-uniformity, can lead to underestimation of film thickness by PLIF that in some cases counteracts the overestimation due to the mirror effect. Smaller angles between the laser sheet and camera axis make PLIF less susceptible to this error. In regions where the film surface is rough, inc
AU  - Cherdantsev,AV
AU  - An,JS
AU  - Charogiannis,A
AU  - Markides,CN
DO  - 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.07.013
EP  - 258
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0301-9322
SP  - 237
TI  - Simultaneous application of two laser-induced fluorescence approaches for film thickness measurements in annular gas-liquid flows
T2  - International Journal of Multiphase Flow
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.07.013
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301932219301569?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/73086
VL  - 119
ER  -
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