EFFECT OF A PROPELLER AND GAS DIFFUSION ON BUBBLE NUCLEI DISTRIBUTION IN A LIQUID

作     者：HSIAO Chao-Tsung CHAHINE Georges L. 

作者机构：DYNAFLOWINC. 

出 版 物：《Journal of Hydrodynamics》 (水动力学研究与进展B辑（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第24卷第6期

页      面：809-822页

核心收录：

学科分类：080704[工学-流体机械及工程] 080103[工学-流体力学] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the Office of Naval Research(Grant No.N00014-05-C-0170) monitored by Dr.Patrick L.Purtell 

主　　题：gas diffusion bubble entrainment propeller 

摘      要：A multi-bubble dynamics code accounting for gas diffusion in the liquid and through the bubble wall was developed and used to study the modification of a bubble nuclei population dynamics by a propeller. The propeller flow field was obtained using a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes （RANS） solver and bubble nuclei populations were propagated in this field. The numerical procedure enabled establishment of the possibility of production behind the propeller of relatively large visible bubbles starting from typical ocean nuclei size distributions. The resulting larger bubbles are seen to cluster in the blade wakes and tip vortices. Parametric investigations of the initial nuclei size distribution, the dissolved gas concentration, and the cavitation number were conducted to ide- ntify their effects on bubble entrainment and the resultant void fractions and bubble distribution modifications downstream from the propeller. Imposed synthetic turbulence-like fluctuations unto the average RANS flow field were also used to study the effect averaging in the RANS procedure has on the results.