Hyperbolic two-pressure models for two-phase flow (Q792833)

Theoretical models for the description of two-phase flows are investigated with regard to their integrability. It is shown that the models have real characteristics for all physically acceptable states. Authors conclude that these two-pressure models contain the essential physics of the two-dimensional, transient, two-phase flow and that standard explicit, implicit, or method of characteristic integration schemes can be used to obtain numerical solutions. Artificial viscosity or other numerical dissipation devices are not necessary in the integration, as the unbounded growth of the single-pressure models does not occur. On the whole, the two-pressure model proposed, seems to be superior to older single-pressure models.