Abstract:In order to identify the flow regime of gasliquid twophase flow effectively, air and water are taken as the experiment media and a vortex flowmeter is employed as component to induce the flow around bluffbody. The ductwall differential pressure method is adopted to acquire the wake fluctuation signals of the flow around bluffbody in the gasliquid twophase flow. The signals are decomposed with the ensemble empirical mode decomposition, and then the Hilbert marginal spectrum is obtained with Hilbert transform. The maximum crosscorrelation coefficient method is used to sift the characteristic intrinsic mode functions. The energy ratios of the characteristic intrinsic mode functions are selected, and used to construct the flowpattern maps together with the volumetric void fraction and the twophase Reynolds number respectively. The results show that the two newly constructed flowpattern maps can successfully identify the typical flow patterns such as singlephase water, bubble flow, plug flow and slug flow with the recognition rate up to 91.67% and 88.89% respectively, which can meet the needs of most practical engineering applications nicely.