Motion of an air bubble under the action of thermocapillary and buoyancy forces

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2018.10.003zbMATH Open1410.76267arXiv1806.06491OpenAlexW2964019537WikidataQ129164218 ScholiaQ129164218MaRDI QIDQ1626166FDOQ1626166

Authors: Manoj Kumar Tripathi, Kirti Chandra Sahu 

Publication date: 26 November 2018

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A novel way to handle surface tension gradient driven flows is developed in the volume-of-fluid (VoF) framework. Using an open source Navier-Stokes solver, {it Basilisk}, and the present formulation, we investigate thermocapillary migration of drops/bubbles in a surrounding medium. Several validation exercises have been performed, which demonstrate that the present solver is a robust one to investigate interfacial flows with variable surface tension. It is well known that it is a challenging task to numerically model the tangential and normal surface forces arising due to interfacial tension. We have shown that the present method does not require the artificial smearing of surface tension about the interface, and thus predicts the theoretical value of the terminal velocity of bubble/drop migrating due to an imposed temperature gradient very well. It is also demonstrated that the present solver provides accurate results for problems exhibiting the gravity and thermocapillary forces simultaneously, and useful for systems with high viscosity and density ratios.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06491

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zbMATH Keywords

thermocapillary flowbuoyancy driven flowbubble riseMarangoni flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Forced convection (76R05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

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Cited In (5)

• Non-isothermal bubble rise dynamics in a self-rewetting fluid: three-dimensional effects
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• A suitability analysis of transient one-dimensional two-fluid numerical models for simulating two-phase gas-liquid flows based on benchmark problems
• Interaction of two non-coalescing bubbles rising in a non-isothermal self-rewetting fluid
• A finite element level set method based on adaptive octree meshes for thermal free‐surface flows

Uses Software

• Gerris
• Basilisk

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