scholarly journals Deceleration of droplets that glide along the free surface of a bath

2016 ◽  
Vol 803 ◽  
pp. 313-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Hale ◽  
Caleb Akers

A droplet obliquely impacting a bath surface of the same fluid can traverse along the interface while slowing at an exponential rate. The droplet rests on a thin film of air, deforms the bath surface creating a dimple and travels along the surface similarly to a wave pulse. Viscous coupling of the droplet and bath surfaces through the air film leads to viscous drag on the bath and perturbs the wave motion of the otherwise free surface. Even though the Reynolds numbers are greater than unity ($\mathit{Re}\,O(10{-}100)$), we show that the droplet’s deceleration is only due to viscous coupling through the air gap. The rate of deceleration is found to increase linearly with droplet diameter.

Author(s):  
Huiyun Yang ◽  
Peng Ke ◽  
Chunxin Yang

A new nose cone ice protection configuration with hot air film slot was investigated, where the surface need to be protected could be heated with interior impingement heat transfer and exterior hot air film. Numerical simulation methods using computational fluid dynamics code were developed and validated to find the effects of the jetted air film on the droplet impingement characteristics. Combination of two-dimensional axisymmetric algorithm and Lagrangian method were adopted to solve the air flow field and the droplet trajectories. The simulation methods were validated with the results from the experimental data. The droplet impingement characteristics on two structures were investigated respectively, the intact cone without film slot and the slotted cone. Results show that the surface local collection coefficient changes significantly behind the film slot because of the blowing effect of the air film on the incoming droplets, and the variation of the local collection coefficient is very dependent on the droplet diameter for a given blowing ratio, or the blowing ratio for a given droplet size. Some different effects, such as “fully blowing-off”, “blowing behind” and “limited blowing-off”, may happen for different combination of droplets size and blowing ratio. Compared with the cone without film slot, the blowing effect is more significant for smaller droplets or higher blowing ratio. Besides that, the total collection coefficient maybe only half of those without film for some conditions.


1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce S. Rosen ◽  
Joseph P. Laiosa

The SPLASH free-surface potential flow panel code computer program is presented. The 3D flow theory and its numerical implementation are discussed. Some more conventional applications are reviewed, for steady flow past solid bodies, and for classical linearized free-surface flow. New free-surface capabilities are also described, notably, steady nonlinear solutions, and novel unsteady partially­nonlinear solutions in the frequency domain. The inviscid flow method treats both free-surface waves and lifting surfaces. The calculations yield predictions for complex interactions at heel and yaw such as wave drag due to lift, the effect of the free­surface on lift and lift-induced drag, and unsteady motions and forces in oblique or following seas. These are in addition to the usual predictions for the simpler effects considered separately, for example double-body lift and induced drag, and upright steady wave resistance or added resistance in head seas. For prediction of total resistance, the use of computed variable wetted areas and wetted lengths in a standard semi-empirical, handbook-type "viscous stripping" algorithm provides a more accurate estimation of viscous drag than is possible otherwise. Results from a variety of IACC and IMS yacht design studies, including comparisons with experimental data, support the conclusion that the free­surface panel code can be used for reliable and accurate prediction of sailboat performance.


Author(s):  
S. Nagaya ◽  
R. E. Baddour

CFD simulations of crossflows around a 2-D circular cylinder and the resulting vortex shedding from the cylinder are conducted in the present study. The capability of the CFD solver for vortex shedding simulation from a circular cylinder is validated in terms of the induced drag and lifting forces and associated Strouhal numbers computations. The validations are done for uniform horizontal fluid flows at various Reynolds numbers in the range 103 to 5×105. Crossflows around the circular cylinder beneath a free surface are also simulated in order to investigate the characteristics of the interaction between vortex shedding and a free surface at Reynolds number 5×105. The influence of the presence of the free surface on the vortex shedding due to the cylinder is discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid A Bhinder ◽  
Jimmy Murphy

Viscous drag, nonlinear in nature, is an important aspect of the fluid–structure interaction modelling and is usually not taken into account when the fluid is assumed to be inviscid. Potential flow solvers can competently compute radiation damping, which is related to the radiated wave field. However, the drag damping primarily related to the viscous effects is usually neglected in the radiation/diffraction problems solved by the boundary element method (BEM), also known as the boundary integral element method (BIEM). This drag force can have a significant impact in the case of structures extending much deeper below the free surface, or for those that are completely submerged. In this paper, the drag coefficient C d was quantified for the heave and surge response of a structure which consists of a moored horizontally oriented domed cylinder with two surface piercing square columns located at the top surface. The domed cylinder is the primary part and is submerged. The drag coefficient is estimated using the experimental measurements related to harmonic monochromatic wave–structure interaction. Finally, this estimated drag coefficient was used in the modified time domain model, which includes the nonlinear viscous correction term, and the resulting device response in heave and surge directions is presented for an irregular incoming wave field. The comparison of the numerical model and the experiments validates the estimated C d values obtained earlier. Prior to the time domain model, frequency-dependent parameters such as added mass, radiation damping, and excitation force were computed using three mainstream potential flow packages (that is, ANSYS AQWA, WAMIT, and NEMOH), and a comparison is presented. The effect of free surface on the drag coefficient is investigated through differences in C d values between heave and surge modes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 694 ◽  
pp. 225-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Camporeale ◽  
Luca Ridolfi

AbstractA free-surface-induced morphological instability is studied in the laminar regime at large Reynolds numbers ($\mathit{Re}= 1\text{{\ndash}} 1{0}^{3} $) and on sub-horizontal walls ($\vartheta \lt 3{0}^{\ensuremath{\circ} } $). We analytically and numerically develop the stability analysis of an inclined melting–freezing interface bounding a free-surface laminar flow. The complete solution of both the linearized flow field and the heat conservation equations allows the exact derivation of the upper and lower temperature gradients at the interface, as required by the Stefan condition, from which the dispersion relationship is obtained. The eigenstructure is obtained and discussed. Free-surface dynamics appears to be crucial for the triggering of upstream propagating ice ripples, which grow at the liquid–solid interface. The kinematic and the dynamic conditions play a key role in controlling the formation of the free-surface fluctuations; these latter induce a streamline distortion with an increment of the wall-normal velocities and a destabilizing phase shift in the net heat transfer to the interface. Three-dimensional effects appear to be crucial at high Reynolds numbers. The role of inertia forces, vorticity, and thermal boundary conditions are also discussed.


1998 ◽  
Vol 359 ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
YULII D. SHIKHMURZAEV

An asymptotic analysis of two-dimensional free-surface cusps associated with flows at low Reynolds numbers is presented on the basis of a model which, in agreement with direct experimental observations, considers this phenomenon as a particular case of an interface formation–disappearance process. The model was derived from first principles and earlier applied to another similar process: the moving contact-line problem. As is shown, the capillary force acting on a cusp from the free surface, which in the classical approach can be balanced by viscous stresses only if the associated rate of dissipation of energy is infinite, in the present theory is always balanced by the force from the surface-tension-relaxation ‘tail’, which stretches from the cusp towards the interior of the fluid. The flow field near the cusp is shown to be regular, and the surface-tension gradient in the vicinity of the cusp, caused and maintained by the external flow, induces and is balanced by the shear stress. Existing approaches to the free-surface cusp description and some relevant experimental aspects of the problem are discussed.


1971 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Hughes ◽  
J. H. Gerrard

Flow visualization has been used quantitatively to determine the flow relative to a piston and a free surface started from rest. The discharge of water from a cylindrical reservoir was investigated. Flow with a free surface started from rest was found to have a critical Reynolds number (based on tube diameter and surface speed) of about 450 above which a ring vortex was produced just below the surface.Measurements at Reynolds numbers of 525 and 1200 were compared with computations made by the methods described in Part 1. The computed drift of tracer particles agreed well with observed values. The largest discrepancies occurred in the radial component of the drift in the early stages of the motion and amounted to 2½% of the tube diameter.


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