Thermocapillary migration of a deformable droplet
| Autor: | Christian Moreau, Javad Mostaghimi, B. Samareh |
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Convection
Marangoni convection Fluorinert Marangoni force Marangoni numbers Variable surface tension Thermal boundary layer Tracking scheme Capillary flow Momentum Surface tension Physics::Fluid Dynamics Three-dimensional volume Immiscible fluids Heat transfer Volume of fluid method Heat convection Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Physics Marangoni effect Thermocapillary migration Mechanical Engineering Interface shape Marangoni number Volume tracking method Mechanics Thermoanalysis Condensed Matter Physics Conservation equations Temperature gradient Classical mechanics Computational uncertainties Migration velocity Interfacial heat transfer Position and orientations Energy equation Drops Silicon oil |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | In the present study a parallel three dimensional Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is developed to simulate Marangoni force in immiscible fluids with variable surface tension. Conservation equations are solved based on cell-averaged one-field volume tracking scheme. Evaluating the convective term in the energy equation along the boundary between the fluids highly depends on the position and orientation of the interface; hence, using average cell values simply ignores the interface shape and leads to computational uncertainty. As a remedy to this issue, the original idea behind the volume tracking method is used not only to advect mass and momentum but also energy across cells. To verify the proposed algorithm, results are compared against theoretically predicted thermocapillary migration velocity of a droplet at the limit of zero Marangoni number. However, at relatively high Marangoni numbers, thermal boundary layers are very thin and challenging to resolve. To demonstrate the capabilities of the heat transfer module, simulation of a Fluorinert droplet moving in silicon oil under applied temperature gradient in microgravity is compared against the available experimental results and the migration velocity of the droplet is reported. 6th International Conference on Thermal Engineering Theory and Applications, May 29 - June 1, 2012, Istanbul |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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