Physical mechanisms governing drag reduction in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with finite-size deformable bubbles

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.478zbMATH Open1415.76663arXiv1805.03868OpenAlexW3102032303WikidataQ56990121 ScholiaQ56990121MaRDI QIDQ4583004FDOQ4583004

Authors: Vamsi Spandan, R. Verzicco, Detlef Lohse 

Publication date: 27 August 2018

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The phenomenon of drag reduction induced by injection of bubbles into a turbulent carrier fluid has been known for a long time; the governing control parameters and underlying physics is however not well understood. In this paper, we use three dimensional numerical simulations to uncover the effect of deformability of bubbles injected in a turbulent Taylor-Couette flow on the overall drag experienced by the system. We consider two different Reynolds numbers for the carrier flow, i.e. $R{e}_i=5imes10^3$ and $R{e}_i=2imes10^4$; the deformability of the bubbles is controlled through the Weber number which is varied in the range $We=0.01-2.0$. Our numerical simulations show that increasing the deformability of bubbles i.e., $We$ leads to an increase in drag reduction. We look at the different physical effects contributing to drag reduction and analyse their individual contributions with increasing bubble deformability. Profiles of local angular velocity flux show that in the presence of bubbles, turbulence is enhanced near the inner cylinder while attenuated in the bulk and near the outer cylinder. We connect the increase in drag reduction to the decrease in dissipation in the wake of highly deformed bubbles near the inner cylinder.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03868

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zbMATH Keywords

multiphase flowTaylor-Couette flowmultiphase and particle-laden flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

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