
842 E Averaged Equations in Two Phase Flow
Often we may ignore the Reynolds stresses as well as the macroscopic viscous
stresses, and if we ignore surface energy effects, we may take p
k
= p
ki
.Theterm
M
k
is the interfacial force, and is generally much larger than the other stress terms.
In this case, the momentum equation becomes
∂
∂t
(α
k
ρ
k
u
k
) +∇.(α
k
ρ
k
u
k
u
k
) =−α
k
∇p
k
+α
k
ρ
k
g +M
k
+u
m
ki
Γ
k
. (E.29)
The interfacial force M
k
includes the important interfacial drag, as well as other
forces, in particular the virtual mass force. Interfacial drag is due to friction at the
interface, while virtual mass terms are associated with relative acceleration. There
are various other forces which are sometimes included, also (see Drew and Wood
1985). The momentum source from phase change u
m
ki
Γ
k
is often ignored. In condi-
tions of slow flow, constitution of the interfacial drag as a term proportional to the
velocity difference between the phases leads to Darcy’s law.
E.4 Energy Equation
The point form of the energy equation is given in (E.6)or(D.12); we use the form
of (D.14), specifically
∂
∂t
(ρe) +∇.(ρeu) =−∇.q +T:∇u. (E.30)
To derive the averaged version, we put ψ = e, J = q, ρf = T:∇u in (E.12). By
analogy with (E.22), we define the turbulent heat transport q
k
via
X
k
ρeu =α
k
ρ
k
e
k
u
k
+α
k
q
k
; (E.31)
we then obtain (cf. (E.16)) the averaged energy equation
∂
∂t
(α
k
ρ
k
e
k
) +∇.{α
k
ρ
k
e
k
u
k
}=−∇.
α
k
(q
k
+q
k
)
+α
k
D
k
+e
ki
Γ
k
+E
k
, (E.32)
where
D
k
=
X
k
T:∇u
α
k
,e
ki
=
ρe(u −u
i
).∇X
k
ρ(u −u
i
).∇X
k
,E
k
=q.∇X
k
, (E.33)
and are respectively the average viscous dissipation, the interfacial internal energy
transfer, and the interfacial heat transfer. The first two of these are generally negligi-
ble, while the third is usually large, at least if the two phases have different average
temperatures. It is because of this that typically temperature does not vary locally,
so that it suffices to consider total energy conservation. To see why this should be,
we need to consider the averaged jump conditions between the phases.