Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol.171, 151-168, 1999
A pseudo-three-dimensional two-phase turbulent fluid mechanical model for the prediction of liquid flow patterns with a free surface in a shallow channel
A closed-loop analysis is presented for a turbulent multiphase fluid mechanical model of dow along a shallow channel, which is capable of accurately predicting free surface elevations at any point within the computational domain. It is shown that simulations based on a finite difference method and the mixing length hypothesis, effectively account for turbulent effects, with good agreement between theoretical predictions and recently performed experiments. The proposed model has many applications in everyday engineering.