In this study,an inverse-problem method was applied to estimate the solid concentration in a solid-liquid two-phase flow.An algebraic slip mixture model was introduced to solve the forward problem of solid-liquid convective heat transfer.The time-average conservation equations of mass,momentum,energy,as well as the volume fraction equation were computed in a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation.The solid concentration in the CFD model was controlled using an external program that included the inversion iteration,and an optimal estimation was performed via experimental mea-surements.Experiments using a fly-ash-water mixture and sand-water mixture with different solid concentrations in a horizontal pipeline were conducted to verify the accuracy of the inverse-problem method.The estimated results were rectified using a method based on the relationship between the estimated results and estimation error;consequently,the accuracy of the corrected inversion results improved significantly.After a verification through experiments,the inverse-problem method was con-cluded to be feasible for predicting the solid concentration,as the estimation error of the corrected results was within 7％ for all experimental samples for a solid concentration of less than 50％.The inverse-problem method is expected to provide accurate predictions of the solid concentration in solid-liquid two-phase flow systems.

Ji Zhang;Han Yuan;Ning Mei;Zhe Yan

Marine Engineering,College of Engineering,Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266100,China;Offshore Engineering,Department of Civil,Environmental and Mining,University of Western Australia,35 Stirling Hwy,Crawley,WA 6009,Australia;Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics,School of Mechanical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240,China

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[1]Ji Zhang;Han Yuan;Ning Mei;Zhe Yan-.Estimation of solid concentration in solid-liquid two-phase flow in horizontal pipeline using inverse-problem approach)[J].颗粒学报（英文版）,2022(03):1-13

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