Simultaneous measurement of bubble size, velocity and void fraction in two-phase bubbly flows with time-resolved X-ray imaging

Key parameters of two‐phase flows, such as void fraction and microscale bubble size, shape and velocity, were simultaneously measured using time‐resolved X‐ray imaging. X‐ray phase‐contrast imaging was employed to obtain those parameters on microbubbles. The void fraction was estimated from X‐ray absorption. The radii of the measured microbubbles were mostly smaller than 20 µm, and the maximum velocity was 39.442 mm s−1, much higher than that in previous studies. The spatial variations of the void fraction were consecutively obtained with a small time interval. This technique would be useful in the experimental analysis of bubbly flows in which microbubbles move at high speed.