The wet steam is a mixture of two-phases. The primary phase is the gaseous-phase consisting of water-vapor (denoted by the subscript v) while the secondary phase is the liquid-phase consisting of condensed-water droplets (denoted by the subscript l).

The following assumptions are made in this model:

From the preceding assumptions, it follows that the mixture density () can be related to the vapor density () by the following equation:

(14–536)

In addition, the temperature and the pressure of the mixture will be equivalent to the temperature and pressure of the vapor-phase.

The mixture flow is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations given in vector form by Equation 23–78:

(14–537)

where =(P,u,v,w,T) are mixture quantities. The flow equations are solved using the same density-based solver algorithms employed for general compressible flows.

To model wet steam, two additional transport equations are needed [269]. The first transport equation governs the mass fraction of the condensed liquid phase ():

(14–538)

where is the mass generation rate due to condensation and evaporation (kg per unit volume per second). The second transport equation models the evolution of the number density of the droplets per unit volume:

(14–539)

where is the nucleation rate (number of new droplets per unit volume per second).

To determine the number of droplets per unit volume, Equation 14–536 and the average droplet volume are combined in the following expression:

(14–540)

where is the liquid density and the average droplet volume is defined as

(14–541)

where is the droplet radius.

Together, Equation 14–537, Equation 14–538, and Equation 14–539 form a closed system of equations that, along with Equation 14–536, permit the calculation of the wet steam flow field.