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Inversion of droplet size distribution in two-phase flow from light scattering has been considered involved because it is in general reduced to the solution of Fredholm integral equation of the first kind that was always ill-posed. By using the Rosin-Rammler distributiona priori as the particulate size distribution model in the liquid-gas two-phase flow, a method via the solution of a two-parameter nonlinear programming problem to determine the droplet size distribution has been developed. A measurement system based on the technique is designed and applied in the shock test of blades of steam turbine. 100-hours continuous monitoring of the droplets in the liquid-gas two-phase flow of 8.0 Pa and 120 °C was performed and the details of the experiments are given out. It is shown that the technique is simple and efficient for in-situ real time measuring droplets in the liquid-gas two-phase flow.
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Ye Mao: born in 1973, Ph. D student
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Mao, Y., Yong, L., Tao, H. et al. In-situ measurement of droplet size distribution by light scattering method. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 3, 418–422 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02830042
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02830042