Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow

🤖 Plain-English Summary

This chapter introduces the fundamentals of multiphase flow through flowlines focused on the transport of hydrocarbons. In summary, to cope with the several intricacies of multiphase flow, the developers of software depend on simplified models and rely on available experimental data to close the set of equations of the model.

🔑 Key Findings

• The flow field of multiphase flow, even for the simpler gas–liquid flows considered in this book, is extraordinarily complex phenomenon.
• The simplicity of single-phase flow driven by the balance of pressure, inertia, and viscous terms is not directly applicable to multiphase flow due to the intricate spatial phase distributions adopted in real pipeline flow.
• The phase spatial distribution is not only a local (i.e.

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