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Influence of viscosity on the shape of an air Taylor bubble in a stagnant liquid under turbulent condition in falling film

Lertnuwat B.

International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering

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2019

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Vol. 24, no. 1

67--77

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This work aims to find the influence of the liquid viscosity on the shape of an air Taylor bubble, rising up in a pipe column which contains the liquid under conditions that the liquid is stagnant and the Froude number is approximately equal to 0.35. Five liquid viscosities (from 0.001 to 0.01 Pa · s) were selected for being computationally investigated. An appropriate shape of a Taylor bubble, corresponding to each selected viscosity, was obtained by considering a pressure distribution of the air inside the bubble. Simulation results showed that the Taylor bubble shape would be thicker if the liquid viscosity was decreased. This could be explained by using the theory of the log-law velocity profile.

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Shapes of an air Taylor bubble in stagnant liquids influenced by different surface tensions

Lertnuwat B.

International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering

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2018

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Vol. 23, no. 1

79--90

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The aim of this work is to propose an empirical model for predicting shapes of a Taylor bubble, which is a part of slug flows, under different values of the surface tension in stagnant liquids by employing numerical simulations. The k - turbulence model was used in the framework of finite volume method for simulating flow fields in a unit of slug flow and also the pressure distribution on a Taylor bubble surface. Assuming that an air pressure distribution inside the Taylor bubble must be uniform, a grid search method was exploited to find an appropriate shape of a Taylor bubble for six values of surface tension. It was found that the shape of a Taylor bubble would be blunter if the surface tension was increased. This was because the surface tension affected the Froude number, controlling the flow around a Taylor bubble. The simulation results were also compared with the Taylor bubble shape, created by the Dumitrescu-and-Taylor model and former studies in order to ensure that they were consistent. Finally, the empirical model was presented from the simulation results.

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Prediction of holdup in liquid slugs

Brauner N., Ullmann A.

Transactions of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery

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2003

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nr 112

75--90

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Correlations and models from the literature for the prediction of void fraction in liquid slugs are reviewed. It is shown that a mechanism that can explain the slug aeration in vertical, horizontal and inclined tubes has not yet been established. A new model that attributes the aeration of the liquid slug to a recurrent bubble entrainment from the Taylor bubble (TB) tail is introtuced. The bubble fragmentation is related to the rate of turbulent kinetic energy in the shear layer, which is formed at the TB wake as the liquid film plunges into the slug front. The model has been tested against experimental data available from the literature and was found to predict the effects of liquid and gas flow rates and physical properties, as well as tube diameter and inclination on the void fraction.