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Migration and deformation of bubbles rising in a wall-bounded shear flow at finite Reynolds number

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2009

FUMIO TAKEMURA ,
JACQUES MAGNAUDET  and
PANAGIOTIS DIMITRAKOPOULOS
FUMIO TAKEMURA
Affiliation:
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan
JACQUES MAGNAUDET*
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, UMR CNRS/INPT/UPS 5502, Allée Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse, France
PANAGIOTIS DIMITRAKOPOULOS
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

The quasi-steady migration and deformation of bubbles rising in a wall-bounded linear shear flow are investigated experimentally in the low-but-finite-Reynolds-number regime. A travelling optical device that follows the bubble is used for this purpose. This apparatus allows us to determine accurately the bubble radius, contour and rising speed, together with the distance between the bubble and the wall. Thereby the transverse component of the hydrodynamic force is obtained for Reynolds numbers Re (based on the bubble diameter and slip velocity of the bubble in the undisturbed shear flow) less than 5. The results indicate that in the range 0.5 < Re < 1.5, the transverse force acting on a spherical bubble agrees well with an extension of the theoretical solution obtained by McLaughlin (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 246, 1993, pp. 249–265) for rigid spheres, whereas it becomes larger than the theoretical prediction for Re > 1.5. In the regime in which bubble deformation is significant, the shape of the bubble and the deformation-induced transverse force are determined both experimentally and computationally, using a spectral boundary element method. Both estimates are found to be in good agreement with each other, while the theory of Magnaudet, Takagi & Legendre (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 476, 2003, pp. 115–157) is found to predict accurately the deformation but fails to predict quantitatively the deformation-induced transverse force.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 634 , 10 September 2009 , pp. 463 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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