多流体モデルによる気泡塔内多分散気泡流の数値計算(流体工学,流体機械)

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Bubble coalescence and breakup models are implemented into the (N+2)-field model, which is a hybrid combination of a multi-fluid model and an interface tracking method to examine the applicability of available bubble coalescence and breakup models to poly-dispersed bubbly flows in bubble columns. The implemented models are a breakup model proposed by Luo & Svendsen and coalescence models proposed by Prince & Blanch and Wang et al. The validation of these models is carried out using experimental data for a coalescence-dominating flow, a breakup-dominating flow, a flow in-between, and a flow with low coalescence-breakup frequencies. Good predictions of void and bubble size distributions for the four kinds of poly-dispersed bubbly flows in bubble columns are obtained. It is also demonstrated that all the possible bubble coalescence mechanisms, i.e. bubble coalescence caused by bubble collisions due to turbulent eddies, the difference in bubble velocities and shear slip, and bubble coalescence due to wake entrainment, should be taken into account for obtaining good predictions.
2009-11-25