Interphase transport in horizontal stratified cocurrent flow

The problem of interfacial transport in cocurrent, horizontal stratified gas-liquid systems is considered. Local condensation heat transfer coefficients and interface shear stress were obtained from mass and force balances. Based on cocurrent stratified air-water flow data, the noncondensing interface shear stress was found to be a function of the relative velocity between the phases and the liquid fraction. Incorporated into Linehan's relation for condensing flow shear stress, the correlation was found to estimate the shear velocity for the condensation data considered. Local condensation heat transfer coefficients and gas absorption mass transfer coefficients were found to be directly proportional to the shear velocity.