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PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART C-JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 236, Issue 3, Pages 1430-1442Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/09544062211020329
Keywords
Two-phase flow; pressure drop; gas-liquid; mini-channel; machine learning
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- Universidad de Guanajuato
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An Artificial Neural Network soft matrix correlation was developed in this study to estimate the pressure drop of air-water two-phase flow. The model's applicability was extended by using dimensionless physical numbers as inputs. Experimental measurements showed that the proposed ANN correlation model has higher accuracy and can be widely applied, including in laminar, transitional, and turbulent flow regimes.
In this paper, an Artificial Neural Network soft matrix correlation to estimate the pressure drop of air-water two-phase flow is developed. The applicability of the model is extended by using dimensionless physical numbers as inputs (Air-Reynolds number, Water-Reynolds number, and the ratio of Air Inertial Forces to Water Inertial Forces), so the model can be implemented for vertical pipes with the proper combination of diameter-velocity-density-viscosity allowing estimations of dimensional numbers within the range of: Air-Reynolds numbers (430-6100), Water-Reynolds number (2400-7200), and Air-Water-Inertial forces ratio (1.6-1834), including the diameter range from 3 to 28 mm. Experimental measurements of frictional pressure drop of water-air mixtures are determined at different conditions. A search of the most suitable density, viscosity, and friction models was conducted and used in the model. The performance of the proposed ANN correlation is compared against published expressions showing good approximation to experimental data; results indicate that the most used correlations are within a mean relative error (mre) of 23.9-30.7%, while the proposed ANN has a mre = 0.9%. Two additional features are discussed: i) the applicability and generality of the ANN using untrained data, ii) the applicability in laminar, transitional, and turbulent flow regimen. To take the approach beyond a robust performance mapping, the methodology to translate the ANN into a programmable equation is presented.
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