Research Article

Modeling and Experiments of Severe Slugging in a Riser System

Table 2

Comparison between experimental and theoretical results.

Inlet conditionsExperimentalTheoreticalError
(m/s) (m/s)cycle time (s)cycle time (s)(%)

0.04070.240708115.7
0.06960.2076057−5.0
0.08300.2155348−9.4
0.14460.32425264.0
0.20600.3792522−12.0
0.20600.423151713.3
0.2500.402151820.0
0.28190.42316176.3
0.29560.3392518−28.0
0.37910.1522321−8.7
0.38230.3691816−11.1
0.43110.1215232−38.5