This paper is a description of the evolution of long-term research work on
two-phase flows using parallel studies of dynamic image analysis and
stochastic processes analysis. The state of current knowledge on the
research of gas-solid and gas-liquid systems as well as a review of research
relating to these issues are also presented. The work grants the principles
of videogrammetric surveys based on stochastic analysis for a series of
photographs taken with video techniques. The method applies the analysis of
changes in selected features and parameters in the time domain. Especially
in application to multiphase gas-liquid and solid-gas mixture flows, which
are characterized by strong variabilities. Parameters such as flow patterns
of the mixture were determined as time-space distributions of phase
concentration, displacement velocities of separated two-phase structures,
volume partitions of phases, and velocity field distributions are evaluated.
The changes of certain parameters characterizing the flow in the time domain
often hide more useful information. The subject of this study covers the
basics of videogrammetry with a description of two-phase mixture motion for
co-current flow in channels, mapping of the phase velocity field, also
across the tube bundle in shell-and-tube apparatus, phase motion at the flow
of a two-phase gas-liquid mixture in mini-channels, transport of liquids in
air-lift pump and fluidization of solid particles.