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Simulation of the Effect of Oil Volume Fractions in an Oil-Water Flows Along a Circular Pipe: A Finite Element Approach

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  • Ferdusee Akter
  • Md. Bhuyan
  • Ujjwal Deb

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Two phase flows in pipelines are very common in industries for the oil transportations. The aim of our work is to observe the effect of oil volume fraction in the oil in water two phase flows. The study has been accomplished using a computational model which is based on a Finite Element Method (FEM) named Galerkin approximation. The velocity profiles and volume fractions are performed by numerical simulations and we have considered the COMSOL Multiphysics Software version 4.2a for our simulation. The computational domain is 8m in length and 0.05m in radius. The results show that the velocity of the mixture decreases as the oil volume fraction increases. It should be noted that if we gradually increase the volume fractions of oil, the fluid velocity also changes and the saturated level of the volume fraction is 22.3%.

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  • Ferdusee Akter & Md. Bhuyan & Ujjwal Deb, 2018. "Simulation of the Effect of Oil Volume Fractions in an Oil-Water Flows Along a Circular Pipe: A Finite Element Approach," Journal of Mathematics Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(5), pages 19-27, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:jmrjnl:v:10:y:2018:i:5:p:19
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    two phase flow; volume fraction; FEM; CFD simulation;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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