Affiliation:
1. Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Abstract
We numerically study the dynamics of buoyancy-driven bubbles in a constricted vertical capillary in which a throat with an arc shape is present. To investigate at what conditions and how the bubble would be entrapped at the capillary throat, a diffuse-interface immersed-boundary method is used in numerical simulations. Axisymmetric simulations are performed for various bubble and throat sizes, represented by the diameter ratio of the throat to the bubble, η ([Formula: see text]), the Bond number ([Formula: see text]), and the Reynolds number ([Formula: see text]). We find that small bubbles have insignificant deformation and, thus, cannot pass through a throat with [Formula: see text], while relatively large bubbles encounter noticeable interface oscillations at their lower part when approaching the throat. In particular, the interface oscillations are composed of a standing wave arising from buoyancy and a capillary wave propagating radially. A phase diagram is presented regarding the eventual bubble morphology: pass-through and entrapment. For the critical diameter ratio ηc at the onset of bubble entrapment, we proposed two scaling laws based on the analysis of the deformability and oscillation of the bubble, i.e., [Formula: see text] for Bo < 1 and [Formula: see text] for Bo > 1. These theoretical predictions are in good agreement with our numerical results.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
strategic priority research program of the chinese academy of science
the National Key Project
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering
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