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In the two-fluid model, the dispersed phase is treated as a pseudo-fluid. In
the Eulerian approach, the flow of the dispersed phase is described by
conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy in continuum
mechanics. In this model, there exists the slip of parameters between the
carrier fluid and the dispersed phase. Based on the two-fluid model, increasing
interest in the prediction of turbulent multi-phase flow has been noticed during
the last twenty years, such as Danon et al (1974)
[3.5],
Al Taweel & Landau
(1977)
[3.6],
Genchiev & Karpuzov (1980)
[3.7],
Melville et al (1979)
[3.8],
Sharma & Crowe (1978)
[3.9],
Michaelides & Farmer (1984) [3.10] and
Shuen et al (1983)
[3.11].
Danon et al (1974) tried to develop the one-
equation turbulence model by adding a length scale determined experimentally
to the turbulent kinetic energy equation for calculating two-phase round jet-
turbulent-flow. Al Taweel & Landau (1977) deduced an energy spectrum
equation at the transient frequency band, adding a supplement dissipation
term to consider appearance of the dispersed phase. Calculated results show
that the increase of volumetric density of the dispersed phase causes the
turbulence intensity at the high frequency band decrease. Genchiev &
Karpuzov (1980) proposed that a sink term has to be added to the single
phase turbulent kinetic energy k equation to simulate the influence of the
disperse phase. These authors applied the two-equation turbulence model to
calculate two-phase turbulent flow. Two-equation turbulence models also
have been proposed for dilute fluid-particle flow by Elghobashi & Abou-Arab
(1983) [3.12] and Crowder et al (1984)
[3.13].
Algebraic and one equation
turbulence models have been suggested for the dense liquid-solid interaction
by Roco & Shook (1983)
[3.14].
Bertodano et al (1990) [3.15] applied the
two-fluid model combined with the Reynolds stress turbulence model to
analyze water-bubble flow. L.X. Zhou (1994) [3.16] suggested the k - s - k
p
gas-particulate two-phase turbulence model (and other models) to calculate
the gas-dispersed flow. Most of existing models are suitable only for
relatively dilute mixtures, in which the particle-particle collision effect and the
fluctuation energy interaction between the liquid and the particulate phases
are negligible. During the last decade, there has been an interesting
development in modeling dense solid-liquid flow, as shown, in references of
Ma & Roco (1988)
[3.17],
Ahmadi & Abu-Zaid (1990) [3.18] and Gidaspow
et al (1991)
[3.19].
As mentioned above, Roco & Shook (1983) applied the
macroscopic continuum theory and the one-equation turbulence model with
double averaging to calculate dense liquid-particle flow. A probabilistic