Mixing of Matter by a Rising Bubble Near a Wall

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Koso ◽  
Hiroyuki Iwashita ◽  
Fumihiko Usuki
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Turbulent Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Air Bubble ◽  
Rising Bubble ◽  
Mass Dispersion ◽  
Mixing Patterns ◽  
Bubble Rising ◽  
Near Wall

The turbulent mixing of liquid mass caused by an air bubble rising near a wall in a still liquid in a pipe is investigated experimentally using a photochromic dye. A part of the liquid is activated by UV light and subjected to the fluid motion caused by a zigzag rising bubble of which Reynolds number is 214. The visualized mixing patterns showed that the dye is mixed by vortex motions in the bubble wake that is similar to the case of a bubble rising in the center of the pipe. The concentration distributions were deduced from the dye images using Lambert-Beer’s law and the turbulent diffusion coefficient (TDC) was evaluated from the temporal changes in the mass dispersion. The TDCs showed that a near-wall bubble generates stronger mixing than for a bubble in the center of the pipe. This stronger mixing can be attributed to the large-scale vortices observed for a near-wall bubble, which remains active for a longer time due to the lack of oppositely rotating vortices and mixes more fluids.

SIMULATION OF AN AXISYMMETRIC RISING BUBBLE BY A MULTIPLE RELAXATION TIME LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (24) ◽  
pp. 4907-4932 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABBAS FAKHARI ◽  
MOHAMMAD HASSAN RAHIMIAN
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann Method ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann ◽  
Rise Velocity ◽  
Rising Bubble ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Multiple Relaxation Time ◽  
Bubble Rising ◽  
Boltzmann Method

In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann method is employed to simulate buoyancy-driven motion of a single bubble. First, an axisymmetric bubble motion under buoyancy force in an enclosed duct is investigated for some range of Eötvös number and a wide range of Archimedes and Morton numbers. Numerical results are compared with experimental data and theoretical predictions, and satisfactory agreement is shown. It is seen that increase of Eötvös or Archimedes number increases the rate of deformation of the bubble. At a high enough Archimedes value and low Morton numbers breakup of the bubble is observed. Then, a bubble rising and finally bursting at a free surface is simulated. It is seen that at higher Archimedes numbers the rise velocity of the bubble is greater and the center of the free interface rises further. On the other hand, at high Eötvös values the bubble deforms more and becomes more stretched in the radial direction, which in turn results in lower rise velocity and, hence, lower elevations for the center of the free surface.

Heat Transfer Enhancement of a Backward-Facing Step Flow in a Duct by Static and Dynamic Devices

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoji Inaoka ◽  
Kouji Kawakami ◽  
Yoshi Nishii ◽  
Mamoru Senda
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Enhancement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Side Wall ◽  
Transfer Enhancement ◽  
Backward Facing Step ◽  
Electromagnetic Actuators ◽  
Flow Recirculation ◽  
Flow Modification

Flow modification downstream of a backward-facing step has been tried in order to achieve heat transfer enhancement by introducing two kinds of devices, a triangle prism rib and electromagnetic actuators, on the step edge. The triangle rib attached to the side-wall corner makes the downward flow inclined and generates a circulation-like fluid motion behind it. Because both flows work effective in reducing the flow re-circulation caused behind the step, large heat transfer recovery is obtained near the side-wall. This advantage of the triangle rib remains effective when the flap actuations are imposed. Thus, the large-scale unsteady vortex intensively reduces the flow recirculation, the triangle rib with flap actuations attains the largest heat transfer recovery behind the step.

Macroscopic Streaming Associated With Vertical, Cyclic Motion of Interface Confined in a Cylindrical Enclosure

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Shimizu ◽  
Takahiro Ito ◽  
Yoshiyuki Tsuji ◽  
Yutaka Kukita
Keyword(s):  
Contact Line ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Viscous Force ◽  
Wall Material ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
Stick Slip ◽  
Stable Regime ◽  
Interface Waves ◽  
Recirculating Flow

The interface between overlaid fluids can become unstable when the fluids are excited vertically. The instability caused by the variation in the vertical acceleration is known by the name of the Faraday waves. Ito et al. (1999) studied a combined excitation problem where the fluids were excited vertically in a stationary cylinder while the interface motion was restricted by the mobility of the fluid-fluid-wall contact line. They found that, under such circumstances, the symmetric fundamental mode grows on the interface, even for excitation amplitude and frequency falling in the stable regime of the Faraday wave instability. Furthermore, they found that the contact line exhibits stick-slip-like motion for the combination of fluids and wall material used in their experiments (water and kerosene oil in a cylinder made of acrylic resin). In this paper, we describe and discuss the fluid motions associated with the excitation of fluids and interface wave. It is shown that a unidirectional flow (macroscopic streaming) is induced below the center of the interface when it is excited vertically to produce axisymmetric wave of large amplitudes. This unidirectional, jet-like flow induces a large-scale recirculating flow which extends several cylinder diameters away from the interface, a spatial scale considerably greater than the wavelength or amplitude of the interface waves, and has a time scale much greater than the excitation interval. It is shown that the phase angle between the wave-induced fluid motion and the fluid motion associated with the viscous force along the interface plays an important role in establishing the large scale stream motion of the fluids.

Application of Near Wall Model to Large Eddy Simulation Based on Boundary Layer Approximation

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Takata ◽  
Akira Yamaguchi ◽  
Masaaki Tanaka ◽  
Hiroyuki Ohshima
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
Frequency Characteristic ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Plane Channel ◽  
Boundary Layer Approximation ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Turbulent Statistics ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Near Wall

Turbulent statistics near a structural surface, such as a magnitude of temperature fluctuation and its frequency characteristic, play an important role in damage progression due to thermal stress. A Large Eddy Simulation (LES) has an advantage to obtain the turbulent statistics especially in terms of the frequency characteristic. However, it still needs a great number of computational cells near a wall. In the present paper, a two-layer approach based on boundary layer approximation is extended to an energy equation so that a low computational cost is achieved even in a large-scale LES analysis to obtain the near wall turbulent statistics. The numerical examinations are carried out based on a plane channel flow with constant heat generation. The friction Reynolds numbers (Reτ) of 395 and 10,000 are investigated, while the Prandtl number (Pr) is set to 0.71 in each analysis. It is demonstrated that the present method is cost-effective for a large-scale LES analysis.

scholarly journals Transitional Flow Dynamics Behind a Micro-Ramp

2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 533-552
Author(s):  
J. Casacuberta ◽  
K. J. Groot ◽  
Q. Ye ◽  
S. Hickel
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vortex Pair ◽  
Base Flow ◽  
Transitional Flow ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Primary Vortex ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Near Wall

AbstractMicro-ramps are popular passive flow control devices which can delay flow separation by re-energising the lower portion of the boundary layer. We compute the laminar base flow, the instantaneous transitional flow, and the mean flow around a micro-ramp immersed in a quasi-incompressible boundary layer at supercritical roughness Reynolds number. Results of our Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) are compared with results of BiLocal stability analysis on the DNS base flow and independent tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry (tomo-PIV) experiments. We analyse relevant flow structures developing in the micro-ramp wake and assess their role in the micro-ramp functionality, i.e., in increasing the near-wall momentum. The main flow feature of the base flow is a pair of streamwise counter-rotating vortices induced by the micro-ramp, the so-called primary vortex pair. In the instantaneous transitional flow, the primary vortex pair breaks up into large-scale hairpin vortices, which arise due to linear varicose instability of the base flow, and unsteady secondary vortices develop. Instantaneous vortical structures obtained by DNS and experiments are in good agreement. Matching linear disturbance growth rates from DNS and linear stability analysis are obtained until eight micro-ramp heights downstream of the micro-ramp. For the setup considered in this article, we show that the working principle of the micro-ramp is different from that of classical vortex generators; we find that transitional perturbations are more efficient in increasing the near-wall momentum in the mean flow than the laminar primary vortices in the base flow.

The structure of the near-wall region of two-dimensional turbulent separated flow

1991 ◽  
Vol 336 (1640) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Shear Layer ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Outer Region ◽  
Turbulence Kinetic Energy ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Wall Region ◽  
Freestream Velocity ◽  
Outer Flow ◽  
Near Wall

The time-dependent structure of the wall region of separating, separated, and reattaching flows is considerably different than that of attached turbulent boundary layers. Large-scale structures, whose frequency of passage scales on the freestream velocity and shear layer thickness, produce large Reynolds shearing stresses and most of the turbulence kinetic energy in the outer region of the shear layer and transport it into the low velocity reversed flow next to the wall. This outer flow impresses a near wall streamwise streaky structure of spanwise spacing λ z simultaneously across the wall over a distance of the order of several λ z . The near wall structures produce negligible Reynolds shear stresses and turbulence kinetic energy.

scholarly journals Two-dimensional fluid motion referred to a network of orthogonal curves

1949 ◽  
Vol 196 (1045) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Gaussian Curvature ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Gradient Wind

A theory already developed is applied to the case of two-dimensional motion parallel at each point of space to some member, Ʃ, of a one-parameter family of surfaces, the coordinate-system being a network of orthogonal curves drawn on Ʃ. The geodesic curvatures of the orthogonal curves and their relationship to the Gaussian curvature of Ʃ are worked out.The equations of motion and of continuity are expressed in terms of the geodesic curvatures. Meyer’s aerodynamical equations are derived as particular cases when the network is fixed in space and the surfaces are all planes. A formula for a large-scale gradient wind is also obtained as an example of the use of a moving network drawn on a sphere.

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