Liquid velocity fluctuations and energy spectra in three-dimensional buoyancy-driven bubbly flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.991zbMATH Open1460.76796arXiv1910.01936OpenAlexW2978001817WikidataQ126589289 ScholiaQ126589289MaRDI QIDQ5207627FDOQ5207627

Authors: Vikash Pandey, Rashmi Ramadugu, P. Perlekar 

Publication date: 13 January 2020

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

Abstract: We present a direct numerical simulation (DNS) study of pseudo-turbulence in buoyancy driven bubbly flows for a range of Reynolds ($Rey$) and Atwood ($At$) numbers. We study the probability distribution function of the horizontal and vertical liquid velocity fluctuations and find them to be in quantitative agreement with the experiments. The energy spectrum shows the $k^{-3}$ scaling at high $Rey$ and becomes steeper on reducing the $Rey$. To investigate the spectral transfers in the flow, we derive the scale-by-scale energy budget equation. Our analysis shows that, for scales smaller than the bubble diameter, the net production because of the surface tension and the kinetic energy flux balances viscous dissipation to give the $k^{-3}$ scaling of the energy spectrum for both low and high $At$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01936

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zbMATH Keywords

bubble dynamicsmultiphase flowturbulence simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22)

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