scholarly journals Euler-Lagrange Simulations of Bubble Cloud Dynamics Near a Wall

Author(s):  
Jingsen Ma ◽  
Chao-Tsung Hsiao ◽  
Georges L. Chahine

We present in this paper a two-way coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian model to study the dynamics of microbubble clouds exposed to incoming pressure waves and the resulting pressure loads on a nearby rigid wall. The model simulates the two-phase medium as a continuum and solves the N-S equations using Eulerian grids with a time and space varying density. The microbubbles are modeled as interacting spherical bubbles, which follow a modified Rayleigh-Plesset-Keller-Herring equation and are tracked in a Lagrangian fashion. A two-way coupling between the Euler and Lagrange components is realized through the local mixture density associated with the bubbles volume change and motion. Using this numerical framework, simulations involving a large number of bubbles were conducted under driving pressures of different frequencies. The results show that the frequency of the driving pressure is critical in determining the overall dynamics: either a collective strongly coupled cluster behavior or non-synchronized weaker multiple bubble oscillations. The former creates extremely high pressures with peak values orders of magnitudes higher than that of the excitation pressures. This occurs when the driving frequency matches the natural frequency of the bubble cloud. The initial distance between the bubble cloud and the wall is also critical on the resulting pressure loads. A bubble cloud collapsing very close to the wall exhibits a cascading collapse with the bubbles farthest from the wall collapsing first and the nearest ones collapsing last, thus the energy accumulates and then results in very violent pressure peaks at the wall. Farther from the wall, the bubble cloud collapses quasi spherically with the cloud center collapsing last.

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingsen Ma ◽  
Chao-Tsung Hsiao ◽  
Georges L. Chahine

We present in this paper a two-way coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian model to study the dynamics of clouds of microbubbles subjected to pressure variations and the resulting pressures on a nearby rigid wall. The model simulates the two-phase medium as a continuum and solves the Navier–Stokes equations using Eulerian grids with a time and space varying density. The microbubbles are modeled as interacting singularities representing moving and oscillating spherical bubbles, following a modified Rayleigh–Plesset–Keller–Herring equation and are tracked in a Lagrangian fashion. A two-way coupling between the Euler and Lagrange components is realized through the local mixture density determined by the bubbles' volume change and motion. Using this numerical framework, simulations involving a large number of bubbles were conducted under driving pressures at different frequencies. The results show that the frequency of the driving pressure is critical in determining the overall dynamics: either a collective strongly coupled cluster behavior or nonsynchronized weaker multiple bubble oscillations. The former creates extremely high pressures with peak values orders of magnitudes higher than that of the excitation pressure. This occurs when the driving frequency matches the natural frequency of the bubble cloud. The initial distance between the bubble cloud and the wall also affects significantly the resulting pressures. A bubble cloud collapsing very close to the wall exhibits a cascading collapse, with the bubbles farthest from the wall collapsing first and the nearest ones collapsing last, thus the energy accumulates and this results in very high pressure peaks at the wall. At farther cloud distances from the wall, the bubble cloud collapses quasi-spherically with the cloud center collapsing last.


Author(s):  
N. A. Bulychev

In this paper, the plasma discharge in a high-pressure fluid stream in order to produce gaseous hydrogen was studied. Methods and equipment have been developed for the excitation of a plasma discharge in a stream of liquid medium. The fluid flow under excessive pressure is directed to a hydrodynamic emitter located at the reactor inlet where a supersonic two-phase vapor-liquid flow under reduced pressure is formed in the liquid due to the pressure drop and decrease in the flow enthalpy. Electrodes are located in the reactor where an electric field is created using an external power source (the strength of the field exceeds the breakdown threshold of this two-phase medium) leading to theinitiation of a low-temperature glow quasi-stationary plasma discharge.A theoretical estimation of the parameters of this type of discharge has been carried out. It is shown that the lowtemperature plasma initiated under the flow conditions of a liquid-phase medium in the discharge gap between the electrodes can effectively decompose the hydrogen-containing molecules of organic compounds in a liquid with the formation of gaseous products where the content of hydrogen is more than 90%. In the process simulation, theoretical calculations of the voltage and discharge current were also made which are in good agreement with the experimental data. The reaction unit used in the experiments was of a volume of 50 ml and reaction capacity appeared to be about 1.5 liters of hydrogen per minute when using a mixture of oxygen-containing organic compounds as a raw material. During their decomposition in plasma, solid-phase products are also formed in insignificant amounts: carbon nanoparticles and oxide nanoparticles of discharge electrode materials.


1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Křepelka ◽  
Drahuše Vlčková ◽  
Milan Mělka

Alkylation of derivatives of 4-aryl-1-naphthols (I-V) by 2,3-epoxypropyl chloride in methanolic sodium hydroxide gave epoxy derivatives VI, VIII, IX, XI and XII, apart from products of cleavage of the oxirane ring, VII and X. Analogous alkylation of compounds I, IV and V by 2-(N,N-diethylamino)ethyl chloride hydrochloride in a two-phase medium afforded basic ethers XIII to XV. The cleavage of the oxirane ring in compound VI by the action of primary and secondary amines, piperidine and substituted piperazines led to compounds XVI-XXIV. Reaction of thionyl chloride with compounds XXI, XXII and XXIV gave chloro derivatives XXV-XXVII.Exposure of compound XXII to 4-methylbenzenesulfonyl chloride produced compound XXVIII, retaining the secondary alcoholic group. In an antineoplastic screening in vivo none of the compounds prepared had an appreciable activity. Compound XVII, being an analogue of propranolol, was used in the test of isoproterenolic tachycardia, and showed a beta-lytic effect comparable with that of propranol.


Author(s):  
Yanick Ricard ◽  
Stéphane Labrosse ◽  
Hidenori Terasaki ◽  
David Bercovici

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
V. E. Shcherba ◽  
I. S. Berezin ◽  
S. S. Danilenko ◽  
I. E. Titov ◽  
P. P. Filippov

Author(s):  
Marion W. Vance ◽  
Kyle D. Squires

An approach to parallel solution of an Eulerian-Lagrangian model of dilute gas-solid flows is presented. Using Lagrangian treatments for the dispersed phase, one of the principal computational challenges arises in models in which inter-particle interactions are taken into account. Deterministic treatment of particle-particle collisions in the present work pose the most computationally intensive aspect of the simulation. Simple searches lead to algorithms whose cost is O(N2p) where Np is the particle population. The approach developed in the current effort is based on localizing collision detection neighborhoods using a cell-index method and spatially distributing those neighborhoods for parallel solution. The method is evaluated using simulations of the gas-solid turbulent flow in a vertical channel. The instantaneous position and the velocity of any particle is obtained by solving the equation of motion for a small rigid sphere assuming that the resulting force induced by the fluid reduces to the drag contribution. Binary particle collisions without energy dissipation or inter-particle friction are considered. The carrier flow is computed using Large Eddy Simulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The entire dispersed-phase population is partitioned via static spatial decomposition of the domain to maximize parallel efficiency. Simulations on small numbers of distributed memory processors show linear speedup in processing of the collision detection step and nearly optimal reductions in simulation time for the entire solution.


Author(s):  
Arvind Jayaprakash ◽  
Sowmitra Singh ◽  
Georges Chahine

The dynamics of a primary relatively large bubble in a water mixture including very fine bubbles is investigated experimentally and the results are provided to several parallel on-going analytical and numerical approaches. The main/primary bubble is produced by an underwater spark discharge from two concentric electrodes placed in the bubbly medium, which is generated using electrolysis. A grid of thin perpendicular wires is used to generate bubble distributions of varying intensities. The size of the main bubble is controlled by the discharge voltage, the capacitors size, and the pressure imposed in the container. The size and concentration of the fine bubbles can be controlled by the electrolysis voltage, the length, diameter, and type of the wires, and also by the pressure imposed in the container. This enables parametric study of the factors controlling the dynamics of the primary bubble and development of relationships between the bubble characteristic quantities such as maximum bubble radius and bubble period and the characteristics of the surrounding two-phase medium: micro bubble sizes and void fraction. The dynamics of the main bubble and the mixture is observed using high speed video photography. The void fraction/density of the bubbly mixture in the fluid domain is measured as a function of time and space using image analysis of the high speed movies. The interaction between the primary bubble and the bubbly medium is analyzed using both field pressure measurements and high-speed videography. Parameters such as the primary bubble energy and the bubble mixture density (void fraction) are varied, and their effects studied. The experimental data is then compared to simple compressible equations employed for spherical bubbles including a modified Gilmore Equation. Suggestions for improvement of the modeling are then presented.


1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (13n14) ◽  
pp. 1695-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ansoldi ◽  
A. Aurilia ◽  
E. Spallucci

We study a functional field theory of membranes coupled to a rank-three tensor gauge potential. We show that gauge field radiative corrections lead to membrane condensation which turns the gauge field into a massive spin-0 field. This is the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism for membranes. An analogy is also drawn with a type-II superconductor. The ground state of the system consists of a two-phase medium in which the superconducting background condensate is “pierced” by four-dimensional domains, or “bags”, of non-superconducting vacuum. Bags are bounded by membranes whose physical thickness is of the order of the inverse mass acquired by the gauge field.


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