Document Type
Article
Date
1-1-2002
Keywords
engineering
Disciplines
Chemical Engineering
Description/Abstract
A method is described for computing the motion of bubbles through a liquid under conditions of large Reynolds and finite Weber numbers. Ellipsoidal harmonics are used to approximate the shapes of the bubbles and the flow induced by the bubbles, and a method of summing flows induced by groups of bubbles, using a fast multipole expansion technique is employed so that the computational cost increases only linearly with the number of bubbles. Several problems involving one, two and many bubbles are examined using the method. In particular, it is shown that two bubbles moving towards each other in an impurity-free, inviscid liquid touch each other in a finite time. Conditions for the bubbles to bounce in the presence of non-hydrodynamic forces and the time for bounce when these conditions are satisfied are determined. The added mass and viscous drag coefficients and aspect ratio of bubbles are determined as a function of bubble volume fraction and Weber number.
Recommended Citation
Sangani, Ashok S.; Kushch, Volodynmyr I.; Spelt, Peter D. M.; and Koch, Donald L., "Finite-Weber-Number Motions of Bubbles Through a Nearly Inviscid Liquid" (2002). Biomedical and Chemical Engineering - All Scholarship. 22.
https://surface.syr.edu/bce/22
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Copyright 2002 Journal of Fluid Mechanics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. The article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002008145