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Speeding up thermocapillary migration of a confined bubble by wall slip

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ying-Chih Liao ,
Yen-Ching Li ,
Yu-Chih Chang ,
Chih-Yung Huang  and
Hsien-Hung Wei
Ying-Chih Liao
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Yen-Ching Li
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
Yu-Chih Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Chih-Yung Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
Hsien-Hung Wei*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
*
†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

It is usually believed that wall slip contributes small effects to macroscopic flow characteristics. Here we demonstrate that this is not the case for the thermocapillary migration of a long bubble in a slippery tube. We show that a fraction of the wall slip, with the slip length $\lambda $ much smaller than the tube radius $R$, can make the bubble migrate much faster than without wall slip. This speedup effect occurs in the strong-slip regime where the film thickness $b$ is smaller than $\lambda $ when the Marangoni number $S= \tau _{T} R/\sigma _{0}~ (\ll 1)$ is below the critical value $S^* \sim (\lambda /R)^{1/2}$, where $\tau _{T}$ is the driving thermal stress and $\sigma _{0}$ is the surface tension. The resulting bubble migration speed is found to be $U_{b} \sim (\sigma _{0}/\mu )S^{3}(\lambda /R)$, which can be more than a hundred times faster than the no-slip result $U_{b} \sim (\sigma _{0}/\mu )S^{5}$ (Wilson, J. Eng. Math., vol. 29, 1995, pp. 205–217; Mazouchi & Homsy, Phys. Fluids, vol. 12, 2000, pp. 542–549), with $\mu $ being the fluid viscosity. The change from the fifth power law to the cubic one also indicates a transition from the no-slip state to the strong-slip state, albeit the film thickness always scales as $b\sim RS^{2}$. The formal lubrication analysis and numerical results confirm the above findings. Our results in different slip regimes are shown to be equivalent to those for the Bretherton problem (Liao, Li & Wei, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 111, 2013, 136001). Extension to polygonal tubes and connection to experiments are also made. It is found that the slight discrepancy between experiment (Lajeunesse & Homsy, Phys. Fluids, vol. 15, 2003, pp. 308–314) and theory (Mazouchi & Homsy, Phys. Fluids, vol. 13, 2001, pp. 1594–1600) can be interpreted by including wall slip effects.

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Interfacial Flows (free surface): Interfacial Flows (free surface) Low-Reynolds-number flows: Lubrication theory Interfacial Flows (free surface): Thin films
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 746 , 10 May 2014 , pp. 31 - 52
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