Drag reduction in boiling Taylor-Couette turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.758zbMATH Open1430.76292arXiv1909.03944OpenAlexW3102391881MaRDI QIDQ5243192FDOQ5243192

Authors: Rodrigo Ezeta, Dennis Bakhuis, Sander G. Huisman, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse 

Publication date: 18 November 2019

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

Abstract: We create a highly controlled lab environment-accessible to both global and local monitoring-to analyse turbulent boiling flows and in particular their shear stress in a statistically stationary state. Namely, by precisely monitoring the drag of strongly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow (the flow in between two co-axially rotating cylinders, Reynolds number $extrmReapprox10^6$) during its transition from non-boiling to boiling, we show that the intuitive expectation, namely that a few volume percent of vapor bubbles would correspondingly change the global drag by a few percent, is wrong. Rather, we find that for these conditions a dramatic global drag reduction of up to 45% occurs. We connect this global result to our local observations, showing that for major drag reduction the vapor bubble deformability is crucial, corresponding to Weber numbers larger than one. We compare our findings with those for turbulent flows with gas bubbles, which obey very different physics than vapor bubbles. Nonetheless, we find remarkable similarities and explain these.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03944

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zbMATH Keywords

drag reductionboilingrotating turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55)

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