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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 125405, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/125405 Research Article CFD Analysis of the Effect of Elbow Radius on Pressure Drop in Multiphase Flow Quamrul H. Mazumder Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Quamrul H. Mazumder, qmazumde@umfl Received 9 April 2012; Accepted 24 September 2012 Academic Editor: Aiguo Song Copyright © 2012 Quamrul H. Mazumder. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed in four different 90 degree elbows with air-water two-phase flows. The inside diameters of the elbows were 6.35 mm and 12.7 mm with radius to diameter ratios (r/D) of 1.5 to 3. The pressure drops at two different upstream and downstream locations were investigated using empirical, experimental, and computational methods. The combination of three different air velocities, ranging from 15.24 to 45.72 m/sec, and nine different water velocities, in the range of 0.1–10.0 m/s, was used in this study. CFD analysis was performed using the mixture model and a commercial code, FLUENT. The comparison of CFD predictions with experimental data and empirical model outputs showed good agreement. 1. Introduction and Background installations, elbows are frequently used to direct the flow and provide flexibility to the system [7]. Since these fittings In most industrial processes, fluids are used as a medium for