Homework Problem 3

Figure 1 shows the plot for the mass flow rate of the mixture versus the back pressure ratio for the three

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models: the homogeneous frozen flow model, the Fauske model and the Moody model.

35

Homogeneous Model
Fauske Model
30

Moody Model

Gm (kg/m2sec)

25

20

15

10

0
0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.1

Pm / Po
Figure 1: Mass flow rate of the mixture vs. back pressure ratio for three two-phase choking flow models.

The approach followed in attaining these curves is explained as follows:

1. The first step was to assume that the drop in pressure across the tube is an isentropic process and
that initially the water is entirely in liquid phase. This meant that at a certain stagnation pressure,
Po (given as 40 bar), the fluid entropy can be taken from the steam tables.
2. The second step was to take pressure values in the range of 0.5 - 40 bar and calculate the quality
of the fluid using the entropy at stagnation pressure (because process is isentropic).
3. From this computed quality the other properties such as mixture enthalpy and mixture density are
calculated.

4. For homogeneous model the following expression for Gm is used,

5. For Fauske model, the mass flow rate becomes

6. And for Moody model, the expression is similar to the Fauske model but the exponent in the
expression for S is 1/3.

Appendix
The table below shows all the calculations performed for plotting the curves. The last three columns
represent the mixture mass flow rates for the three models.

Pm/Po

v_m
(m3/kg)

h_m
(kJ/kg)

V_m
(m/s)

Fauske
Model

Moody
Model

0
0.0080
7229
0.0168
546
0.0253
0612
0.0335
6322
0.0427
3891
0.0526
5491
0.0621
9659
0.0713
8474
0.0802
3867
0.0899
2344
0.1003
2663
0.1112
0106
0.1226
8164

0.00125
0.001658
966
0.002151
959
0.002687
075
0.003278
107
0.004018
544
0.005008
734
0.006093
341
0.007277
337
0.008561
977
0.010030
265
0.012128
678
0.014786
578
0.018282
492

1087.5
1087.252
952
1086.812
961
1086.364
082
1085.790
161
1085.012
062
1083.747
598
1081.943
662
1080.447
376
1079.338
285
1078.437
311
1076.264
327
1073.596
21
1070.308
805

0
22.22827
9
37.06854
67
47.66378
85
58.47801
43
70.53989
22
86.63027
47
105.4166
77
118.7655
19
127.7631
81
134.6305
28
149.9044
59
166.7560
5
185.4248
91

Homogeneou
s Model
0

14807.49747

15690.18141

13398.87166

20718.62721

22893.3842

17225.49126

22795.18338

25886.91316

17738.16764

24203.78937

27995.67514

17838.95678

25020.6319

29310.18704

17553.59657

25906.18107

30634.62644

17295.84111

26942.41703

31982.43815

17300.30883

26226.59171

31144.36446

16319.91461

24581.36462

29131.48317

14922.15944

22539.20995

26592.5354

13422.43027

21232.03407

24917.61865

12359.50505

19765.20561

23037.38147

11277.52828

18095.22359

20916.87971

10142.21116

0.95
0.9
0.85
0.8
0.75
0.7
0.65
0.6
0.55
0.5
0.45
0.4
0.35

0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.075
0.05
0.045
0.04
0.035
0.03
0.025

0.1349
1105
0.1481
2566
0.1627
2016
0.1793
5548
0.1993
1627
0.2114
8894
0.2263
1193
0.2297
798
0.2334
8938
0.2374
9379
0.2418
643
0.2466
9749

0.023017
176
0.029758
246
0.040039
409
0.057507
298
0.093028
583
0.128963
705
0.201264
589
0.225426
189
0.255635
141
0.294485
449
0.346178
269
0.418688
983

1066.152
399
1060.913
956
1054.053
262
1044.481
725
1029.921
336
1018.956
317
1002.925
722
998.6742
06
993.8865
078
988.3911
364
982.0709
389
974.3949
141

206.6281
73
230.5907
38
258.6377
33
293.3198
77
339.3483
87
370.2531
11
411.2767
38
421.4873
52
432.6973
36
445.2164
95
459.1929
03
475.6155
71

16266.67356

18622.7027

8977.129677

14228.53007

16110.735

7748.80128

11991.74494

13408.50464

6459.579254

9557.617749

10531.28633

5100.567841

6874.318734

7443.924201

3647.786262

5414.95518

5803.386897

2870.98692

3849.051314

4075.245042

2043.462986

3519.166239

3715.781027

1869.735518

3184.214289

3351.849222

1692.636365

2840.739856

2981.082276

1511.845478

2488.746617

2603.053325

1326.463689

2128.207472

2217.59753

1135.963904