Published 1988 | Version v1
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The effect of gravity on steam propagation in porous media

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (USA)

Description

Theoretical and experimental studies of steam flow and condensation in porous media are presented. The influence of gravity forces on the liquid phase distribution, condensation front propagation velocity, temperature profile, and pressure gradients is examined. Theoretical calculations predict an abrupt transition from a viscous dominated flow regime to a gravity dominated flow regime for ratios of gravity forces to viscous forces exceeding one. Experimental observations confirm this transition. Temperature profiles, pressure profiles, condensation front velocities, and liquid distributions are in agreement with theory. Stability criterion for stable displacement of water by steam are experimentally confirmed

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Imprint Place
New York, NY (USA)
Imprint Title
Multiphase transport in porous media
Journal Page Range
p. 31-42.

Conference

Title
ASME winter meeting.
Dates
13-18 Dec 1987.
Place
Boston, MA (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
19089006
Subject category
S42: ENGINEERING;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; VAPOR CONDENSATION; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
MATERIALS