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icantly influenced by the amount of entrainment and droplet size.<br />

In view of its importance, a detailed modeling of amount of entrained<br />

droplet has been carried out recently [2] by considering the entrainment mech-<br />

anism of the shearing off of roll-wave crests by streaming gas flow: However,<br />

there have been no satisfactory correlations for the prediction of the mean<br />

droplet size and size distribution for annular dispersed flow. The lack of<br />

such a correlation has been one of the main difficulties of analyzing various<br />

important phenomena in annular flow. The principal objective of this study,<br />

therefore, is to develop a reliable and simple predictive method for the mean<br />

droplet size as well as the droplet size distribution. A certain mechanistic<br />

modeling which are consistent with the reviously developed onset of entrain-<br />

ment criterion and correlation for the amount of entrainment has been adopted<br />

here to obtain a general correlation with wide ranges of applicability. Hence,<br />

the main mechanism of droplet generation considered here is the shearing off<br />

of the roll-wave crest by gas flow.<br />

In addition to the prksent model based on entrainment mechanism, several<br />

existing droplet size criteria based on droplet disintegration have been re-<br />

viewed in this study. As it becomes evident, the standard Weber number cri-<br />

terion expressed in terms of the relative velocity between gas and droplet<br />

gives far too large droplet sizes in annular.flow. This also indicates that .<br />

the droplet size in annular flow is mainly determined at the time of entrain-<br />

ment.<br />

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