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Mir Larval stage of trematodes obtained from brackish water snails in the central and east coast of the gulf of Thailand 386 Suluck Namchote, Supatta Sritongtae, Siriphon Butnin, Paporn Wongwain and Duangduen Krailas Vol. 10(11), pp. 367-375, 15 June, 2015 DOI: 10.5897/SRE2015.6201 Article Number:2BFBED353458 ISSN 1992-2248 Scientific Research and Essays Copyright©2015 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE Full Length Research Paper Analysis of cavitating flow through a venturi Mohammed ZAMOUM* and Mohand KESSAL Laboratoire Génie Physique des Hydrocarbures LGPH, Faculté des Hydrocarbures et de la Chimie FHC, Université M’hamed Bougara, Boumerdès, 35000, Algérie. Received 1 March, 2015; Accepted 26 May, 2015 A dynamical study of a bubbly flows in a transversal varying section duct (Venturi), is modeled by the use of the mass and momentum phases equations, which are coupled with the Rayleigh-Plesset equation of the bubbles dynamics. The effects of the throat dimension and the upstream void fraction on flow parameters are investigated. The numerical resolution of the previous equations set let us found that the characteristics of the flow change dramatically with upstream void fraction. Two different flow regimes are obtained: a quasi-steady and a quasi-unsteady regimes. The former is characterized by a large spatial fluctuations downstream of the throat, which are induced by the pulsations of the cavitation bubbles. The quasi-unsteady regime corresponds to flashing flow in which occurs a bifurcation at the flow transition between these regimes. This transition occurs at Rc 4.3 which -3 corresponds to s 4.710 . An analytical expression for the critical bubble size at the flashing flow point is also obtained and compared with theoretical data. Key words: Venturi meter, tow-phase flow, cavitation. INTRODUCTION It is well known that the venturi