Abstract

In this paper we propose a model for determining the pressure loss due to friction in each phase in a three-layer laminar steady flow of immiscible liquid and gas flow in a flat channel.

This model generalizes an analogous problem for a two-layer laminar flow, proposed earlier. The relations obtained in the final form for the pressure loss due to friction in liquids can be used as closing relations for the three-fluid model.

These equations take into account the influence of interphase boundaries and are an alternative to the approach used in foreign literature. In this approach, the wall and interphase voltages are approximated by the formulas for a single-phase flow and do not take into account the mutual influence of liquids on the loss of pressure on friction in phases. The distribution of flow parameters in these two models is compared.