Wall collision of deformable bubbles in the creeping flow regime

Autor: Fabian Denner
Přispěvatelé: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Technology
DRAINAGE
ARBITRARY MESHES
VOF METHOD
Fluids & Plasmas
media_common.quotation_subject
Bubble
SURFACE-TENSION
Direct numerical simulation
General Physics and Astronomy
02 engineering and technology
CAPILLARY WAVES
Deformation (meteorology)
Mechanics
Inertia
01 natural sciences
09 Engineering
010305 fluids & plasmas
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
Surface tension
Physics
Fluids & Plasmas

Viscocapillary balance
0103 physical sciences
01 Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Physics
media_common
Film drainage
Physics
Science & Technology
02 Physical Sciences
Stokes flow
Creeping flow
CONSTANT APPROACH VELOCITY
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Collision
Capillary number
Bubble deformation
COLLIDING DROPS
Physical Sciences
Bubble-wall collision
CRITICAL THICKNESS
REYNOLDS-NUMBER
THIN LIQUID-FILMS
0210 nano-technology
Zdroj: European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids. 70:36-45
ISSN: 0997-7546
DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2018.02.002
Popis: A systematic study of the hydrodynamic mechanisms governing the collision of a rising bubble with a solid wall in the creeping flow regime ( Re 1 ) is presented, using direct numerical simulation. The presented results reveal self-similar aspects of the bubble–wall collision with respect to the capillary number, in particular of the film between the bubble and the wall as well as of the deformation and shape of the bubble. This similarity holds despite the extreme deformation of the bubble in some of the considered cases and is shown to be independent of the approach velocity and the fluid properties, indicating that the collision of a bubble with a solid wall in the creeping flow regime is governed by the balance of viscous stresses and surface tension, while the inertia of the bubble has a negligible influence. The timescale associated with the drainage of the film separating the bubble surface and the wall is also related to the viscocapillary balance, and is found to be independent of the size of the bubble. An empirical correlation is proposed based on the presented results to a priori estimate the drainage time of this film. Because the behaviour of a bubble during film drainage is quasi-stationary, the findings associated with film drainage also apply to bubble–wall collisions outside the remit of the creeping flow regime ( Re ≫ 1 ).
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