Shape oscillations of an oil drop rising in water: effect of surface contamination

Inertial shape oscillations of heptane drops rising in water are investigated experimentally. Diameters from 0.59 to 3.52 mm are considered, corresponding to a regime where the rising motion should not affect shape oscillations for pure immiscible fluids. The interface, however, turns out to be contaminated. The drag coefficient is considerably increased compared to that of a clean drop due to the well-known. Marangoni effect resulting from a gradient of surfactant concentration generated by the fluid motion along the interface. Thanks to the decomposition of the shape into spherical harmonics, the eigenfrequencies and the damping rates of oscillation modes n = 2, 3, 4 and 5 have been measured. Frequencies are not affected by contamination, while damping rates are increased by a considerable amount that depends neither on drop instantaneous velocity nor on diameter. This augmentation, however, depends on the mode number: it is maximum for mode two (multiplied by 2.4) and then relaxes towards the value of a clean drop as n increases. A previous similar investigation of a drop attached to a capillary has not revealed such an increase of the damping rates, indicating that the coupling between rising motion and surface contamination is responsible for this effect

Drop breakup modelling in turbulent flows

This paper deals with drop and bubble break-up modelling in turbulent flows. We consider the case where the drop/bubble slip velocity is smaller than or of the order of the turbulent velocity scales, or when the drop/bubble deformation is mainly caused by the turbulent stress (atomisation is not addressed here). The deformation of a drop is caused by continuous interactions with turbulent vortices; the drop responds to these interactions by performing shape-oscillations and breaks up when its deformation reaches a critical value. Following these observations, we use a model of forced oscillator that describes the drop deformation dynamics in the flow to predict its break-up probability. Such a model requires a characterization of the shape- oscillation dynamics of the drop. As this dynamics is theoretically known only under restrictive conditions (without gravity, surfactants), CFD two-phase flow simulations, based on the Level-Set and Ghost Fluid methods, are used to determine the interface dynamics in more complex situations: deformation of a drop in the presence of gravity, bubble-vortex interactions. Results are compared with experimental data. The perspectives to apply this model to breakup in emulsification processes are also discussed

Vortex Structures in an Excited Impinging Jet Flow

The behavior of vortex structures is studied in an impinging jet of Reynolds number 10 000. The effect of the modulation of the nozzle exit velocity on the flow structure is studied by means of hot-wire anemometry. It is found that the velocity field can be modified by excitations of a wide range of frequencies. In most cases the excitation yields formation of large vortices, which provoke an unsteady flow separation at their impact onto the wall. The excitation at higher frequencies suppresses the roll-up of large eddies. The velocity fluctuations near the wall are then suppressed and the flow separation disappears. The effect is documented by phase averaging for the low nozzle-to-plate spacing. The time-averaged measurements show that the unsteady flow separation can be suppressed even for nozzle-to-plate spacing up to eight diameters

Počáteční chování bubliny páry v přehřáté kapalině

The model is based on a simplified law for heat transfer of a growing and moving bubble and on solving the forces acting on this bubble. The model is represented by a system of ordinary differential equations and can be used until the time when bubbles start to wobble. An partially successful (but not convincing) attempt to validate this model by comparison with available experimental data was done. In most cases, the bubble behavior is controlled by a balance of the buoyancy with the added-mass force. In this aspect, the bubble behavior differs considerably from the case of constant-volume bubbles, for which the added-mass force is usually negligible. For the case of spherical bubbles, a simple analytical solutions are provided

Damping of Bubble Shape Oscillations by Surfactants

Shape oscillations of a bubble, which are either attached to a capillary tip or freely floating in a liquid, are studied by high speed imaging. The effect of surfactant (alpha-terpineol) on the decay time of oscillations is studied. It is observed that the addition of this surfactant in water leads to an important shortening of the decay time

Oscillations of Bubbles Attached to a Capillary: Case of Pure Liquid

In this contribution, we therefore present results of a linear inviscid theory for shape oscillations of a spherical bubble, which is in contact with a solid support. The theory allows determining eigenmode, but also response of the bubble shape to a motion of its support or to volume variations. Present theory covers also the cases previously analyzed by Strani and Sabettaand Bostwick and Steen, and it can be applied to both bubbles and drops. The theory has been compared to experiments. Good agreement is found for the case of small bubbles, which have spherical static shape. Experimental results for larger bubbles and drops deviate from the theory, if a neck is formed. It is shown that this deviation correlates well with a ratio of bubble volume to the maximum volume, when a detachment occurs

Bubble Production Controlled by Needle Movement

For the research of multiphase flows, it is often needed to produce bubbles of well-defined size. Examples of such a research are studies of bubble acoustic emission, bubble interactions with solid particles (e.g. in flotation process) or interactions between bubbles. To produce a well-defined bubble is, however, rather difficult, and it is even more difficult to vary the bubble size between different experimental runs. For this reason, we have produces an instrument ("bubble generator", which produces bubbles in a controlled manner, enableng to set indepedently the bubble size, bubbling frequency and total number of bubbles. The bubbling control is achieved by moving the needle, on which the bubbles are produced