Author : Chengsi Zhou
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Numerical Simulation and Experimental Investigations of Two-phase Flow in Singularities by : Chengsi Zhou
Download or read book Numerical Simulation and Experimental Investigations of Two-phase Flow in Singularities written by Chengsi Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerical simulations and experimental investigations of rising individual Taylor bubble through a vertical sudden expansion and contraction in stagnant Newtonian liquid is presented. The CFD procedure is based on the open source package Gerris which adopts the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method to represent the gas/liquid interface. The numerical method is verified using the existing results of single Taylor bubbles rising in straight columns. The experiments investigate a nitrogen bubble rising in a water-glycerol mixture for different concentrations. The pipe diameter ratio ranges from 0.69 to 1.72. The images of the bubble rising through the singularities are captured by a high-speed camera. Our investigations focus on the transient process of the bubbles passing the singularity. The variations of the bubble velocity and the liquid film thickness are investigated. The results show that the greater expansion ratios yield more perturbations on the bubbles and have strong effects on the tail of the bubble. The unstable bubble tails are cut off into smaller bubbles in some of the test cases and a bubble break-up regime map obtained by simulations has been proposed. The bubble shape variations depend also on the length of the bubbles. For a bubble passing through a contraction, the blocking phenomenon has been observed and a map has been proposed. Finally, this study, based on a large range of Eötvös numbers and expansion/contraction ratios, provides new insights to better understand the effect of singularities on rising Taylor bubbles.