气泡与弹性膜的耦合效应数值模拟

本文在前人研究的基础上,计入浮力、表面张力、不同流体密度比等因素对弹性膜附近气泡运动的影响,结合不可压缩理想流体理论,建立气泡与弹性膜耦合动力学数值模型,采用边界元方法进行求解,计算值与Turangan等的实验结果符合良好.通过对弹性膜附近气泡运动的数值模拟,详细分析了弹性膜两侧为同种密度液体以及不同密度液体时气泡的运动,随后又分析气泡在弹性膜和浮力的共同作用下气泡的射流特性.旨在为相关气泡与弹性膜相互作用特性的研究提供参考. 关键词： 弹性膜 边界元法 气泡 浮力     

基于边界元法的近平板圆孔气泡动力学行为研究

研究了带有圆孔的平板附近气泡动力学特性. 基于不可压缩势流理论, 建立了平板圆形破口附近气泡运动数值模型, 并针对气泡初始位置距离破口很近而导致计算结果发散的数值缺陷, 采用气泡壁和壁面融合的方法, 将流场分离为两个半无限域问题进行求解, 实现了在不同无量纲参数范围内的数值模拟, 数值结果与实验结果符合良好. 通过对圆孔附近气泡运动特性的研究发现, 圆孔对气泡的影响基本与壁面相反, 在膨胀阶段对气泡产生腔吸作用, 收缩阶段产生排斥, 在特定的工况下会产生对射流现象. 最后分析了气泡壁与壁面融合, 流场分离后的气泡动态特性以及各工况参数对其影响规律. 关键词： 气泡 边界元 射流 圆孔     

近壁面气泡的运动规律研究

基于势流假设,建立气泡与壁面耦合数值模型,运用边界积分法求解,并开发三维计算程序,计算值与实验值符合很好.从气泡与壁面相互作用的基本现象入手,基于开发的程序系统地研究了刚性壁面附近气泡的动力学特性,其中包括水平壁面及倾斜壁面,研究壁面的Bjerknes效应与各特征参数之间的关系,并将各种工况的计算结果与基于Kelvin-impulse理论的Blake准则进行对比分析讨论,得出偏射流方向及壁面压力与气泡的特征参数有密切的关系,同时给出了Blake准则的适用范围.旨在为相关的近壁面气泡动态特性研究提供参考. 关键词： 气泡 壁面 边界积分 Bjerknes效应     

距离参数对浅水中气泡运动影响规律的实验和数值模拟

当爆炸气泡在浅水中运动时,同时受到自由面和水底壁面的作用而产生极其复杂的水面现象,气泡的运动特性与在自由场中或单一边界附近处爆炸相比会发生很大变化。为探究其规律,通过电火花诱导气泡实验,利用高速摄影技术对气泡与组合多边界的相互作用进行了研究,总结了自由面距离(γ_f)和壁面距离(γ_w)对气泡运动和水冢类型的影响。并用OpenFOAM进行了数值模拟,分析了距离参数对射流载荷的影响。结果表明:自由面距离参数较壁面距离参数对水冢类型影响更大;射流速度随自由面距离的增大而减小,在0γ_w2时,射流速度随壁面距离的增大先减小后增大;壁面压力与距离呈负相关,射流冲击面积与距离呈正相关。     

高粘度流体中上升气泡的直接数值模拟

本文将基于Front Tracking方法求解气液两相界面迁移特性的直接数值模拟方法扩展到中低Re数情形 (1．89≤Re≤55．6),针对无边界以及垂直壁面附近高粘度流体中单个气泡(1．2 mm≤D≤6 mm)的上升过程进行模拟,研究气泡运动的机理以及气泡与壁面的相互作用。数值模拟准确再现了气泡的上升过程和变形,不同Re数下气泡的上升速度计算结果同经验关联式非常吻合,验证了该方法在中低Re数范围内的有效性。壁面附近流场的不对称引发壁面对气泡的升力是导致气泡逐渐偏离垂直壁面的原因,计算得到的壁面作用力系数同实验结果的对比也确定了本文参数范围内计算壁面对气泡作用力的模型。     

静止水中单个上升气泡的直接数值模拟

本文发展了基于Front Tracking的直接数值模拟方法研究气液两相界面的迁移特性,该方法对气液两相采用半隐式的分步法直接求解N-S方程,耦合Front Tracking Method获得两相界面的三维变形。针对无边界以及垂直壁面附近静止水中的单个气泡上升过程进行模拟,研究气泡运动的机理以及气泡与壁面的相互作用。数值模拟准确再现了气泡的上升过程和变形,不同Re数下气泡的上升速度计算结果同经验关联式非常吻合,验证了该方法的有效性。随后分析了气泡周围流场的结构,发现壁面对气泡周围流场的抑制是壁面对气泡作用力的主要原因,将导致气泡逐渐偏离垂直壁面。     

黏性液体中单个气泡上升的形状特性

采用基于Level Set方法的直接数值模拟技术对黏性液体中单个气泡的上升运动进行三维模拟.数值模拟采用拟单相流模型处理气泡内外的气液两相流动,应用Level Set方法捕捉运动气泡的变形.针对Eo数从O(0)～O(2),Mo数从O(-11)～O(2)的流动范围,重点研究了上升气泡的形状特性,并与经典的气泡形状图谱进行了比较.模拟结果表明,上升气泡的形状与无量纲参数(Eo、Mo和Re)密切相关.在高Re的扁椭球区域,数值发现了气泡形状的周期性振荡行为.     

激波与SF6球形气泡相互作用的数值研究

本文基于大涡模拟方法, 采用高阶精度格式对平面入射激波以及不同反射距离条件下的反射激波与SF₆重气泡相互作用过程进行了三维数值模拟. 数值结果清晰地显示了SF₆重气泡在激波作用下诱导Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性过程, 揭示了入射激波以及反射激波在气泡界面聚焦诱导射流的过程, 详细分析了不同反射距离条件下反射激波与SF₆重气泡作用过程及流场结构.     

基于势流理论的气枪气泡远场压力子波特性研究

气枪气泡的远场压力子波特性研究是研究气枪震源的基础,本文在前人研究基础上建立了三维边界元气泡动力学模型,并针对气泡射流这一技术瓶颈提出了能量等效算法.再在上述模型中加入了简化的热力学模型,考虑了气枪释放气体以及气泡传热等热力学因素,将上面模型计算结果和Nucleus软件模拟结果对比,两者符合良好,并以此为基础探讨了传热系数、气枪发射时间、气体等体比热容对气枪主要参数的影响规律.最后将轴对称气泡融合技术拓展到三维边界元模型,对相干枪进行初步研究,探讨了气枪间距对压力子波的影响规律,旨在为气枪的研究提供参考.     

流体黏性及表面张力对气泡运动特性的影响

基于气泡边界层理论,引入黏性修正,采用边界积分法,考虑黏性效应和表面张力在单气泡以及双气泡耦合作用过程中的影响.首先将建立的数值模型与Rayleigh-Plesset的解析解进行对比,发现二者符合良好,验证了数值模型的有效性;在此基础上,建立考虑流体弱黏性效应的双气泡耦合模型,研究流体黏性和表面张力作用下,气泡表面变形、射流速度、流场能量转换等物理量的变化规律;最后研究雷诺数和韦伯数对于气泡脉动特性的影响规律.结果表明,流体黏性会抑制气泡脉动和气泡射流发展,降低气泡半径和射流速度;表面张力不改变气泡脉动幅值,但缩短了脉动周期,提升气泡势能.     

Numerical simulation of 3D bubbles rising in viscous liquids using a front tracking method

The rise of bubbles in viscous liquids is not only a very common process in many industrial applications, but also an important fundamental problem in fluid physics. An improved numerical algorithm based on the front tracking method, originally proposed by Tryggvason and his co-workers, has been validated against experiments over a wide range of intermediate Reynolds and Bond numbers using an axisymmetric model [J. Hua, J. Lou, Numerical simulation of bubble rising in viscous liquid, J. Comput. Phys. 22 (2007) 769–795]. In the current paper, this numerical algorithm is further extended to simulate 3D bubbles rising in viscous liquids with high Reynolds and Bond numbers and with large density and viscosity ratios representative of the common air–water two-phase flow system. To facilitate the 3D front tracking simulation, mesh adaptation is implemented for both the front mesh on the bubble surface and the background mesh. On the latter mesh, the governing Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible, Newtonian flow are solved in a moving reference frame attached to the rising bubble. Specifically, the equations are solved using a finite volume scheme based on the Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-Linked Equations (SIMPLE) algorithm, and it appears to be robust even for high Reynolds numbers and high density and viscosity ratios. The 3D bubble surface is tracked explicitly using an adaptive, unstructured triangular mesh. The numerical model is integrated with the software package PARAMESH, a block-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) tool developed for parallel computing. PARAMESH allows background mesh adaptation as well as the solution of the governing equations in parallel on a supercomputer. Further, Peskin distribution function is applied to interpolate the variable values between the front and the background meshes. Detailed sensitivity analysis about the numerical modeling algorithm has been performed. The current model has also been applied to simulate a number of cases of 3D gas bubbles rising in viscous liquids, e.g. air bubbles rising in water. Simulation results are compared with experimental observations both in aspect of terminal bubble shapes and terminal bubble velocities. In addition, we applied this model to simulate the interaction between two bubbles rising in a liquid, which illustrated the model’s capability in predicting the interaction dynamics of rising bubbles.     

The interaction between multiple bubbles and the free surface

The flow is assumed to be potential, and a boundary integral method is used to solve the Laplace equation for the velocity potential to investigate the shape and the position of the bubble. A 3D code to study the bubble dynamics is developed, and the calculation results agree well with the experimental data. Numerical analyses are carried out for the interaction between multiple bubbles near the free surface including in-phase and out-of-phase bubbles. The calculation result shows that the bubble period increases with the decrease of the distance between bubble centres because of the depression effect between multiple bubbles. The depression has no relationship with the free surface and it is more apparent for out-of-phase bubbles. There are great differences in dynamic behaviour between the in-phase bubbles and the out-of-phase bubbles due to the depression effect. Furthermore, the interaction among eight bubbles is simulated with a three-dlmensional model, and the evolving process and the relevant physical phenomena are presented. These phenomena can give a reference to the future work on the power of bubbles induced by multiple charges exploding simultaneously or continuously.     

An interaction potential based lattice Boltzmann method with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) for two-phase flow simulation

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for two-phase flow simulation is often hindered by insufficient resolution at the interface. As a result, the LBM simulation of bubbles in bubbling flows is commonly limited to spherical or slightly deformed bubble shapes. In this study, the adaptive mesh refinement method for the LBM is developed to overcome such a problem. The approach for this new method is based on the improved interaction potential model, which is able to maintain grid-independent fluid properties in the two-fluid phases and at the interface. The LBM–AMR algorithm is described, especially concerning the LBM operation on a non-uniform mesh and the improved interaction potential model. Numerical simulations have been performed to validate the method in both single phase and multiphase flows. The 2D and 3D simulations of the buoyant rise of bubbles are conducted under various conditions. The agreement between the simulated bubble shape and velocity with experiments illustrates the capability of the LBM–AMR approach in predicting bubble dynamics even under the large bubble deformation conditions. Further, the LBM–AMR technique is capable of simulating a complex topology change of the interface. Integration of LBM with AMR can significantly improve the accuracy and reduce computation cost. The method developed in this study may appreciably enhance the capability of LBM in the simulation of complex multiphase flows under realistic conditions.     

Nonlinear dynamics of a cavitation bubble pair near a rigid boundary in a standing ultrasonic wave field

The dynamics of a micrometer-sized bubble pair in water near a rigid boundary under standing ultrasonic wave excitation is investigated in this study. The viscous effect in the boundary layer at the air-water interface is considered following the viscous correction model. The evolution of the bubble surface at the collapsing stage of the bubble pair is presented for different parameter sets. The field pressure near the rigid boundary, which is induced by the oscillating bubble pair, and the high-speed water jet at the collapse stage, form the main focus of the analysis. This reveals that a horizontal configuration of the bubble pair retards the strength of the bubble jet towards the boundary, whilst a vertical configuration, especially with differently-sized bubbles, can enhance the bubble collapse. This study may help to understand the interaction of multiple bubbles in an acoustic field and its application to surface cleaning.     

Effects of medium viscoelasticity on bubble collapse strength of interacting polydisperse bubbles

Due to its physical and/or chemical effects, acoustic cavitation plays a crucial role in various emerging applications ranging from advanced materials to biomedicine. The cavitation bubbles usually undergo oscillatory dynamics and violent collapse within a viscoelastic medium, which are closely related to the cavitation-associated effects. However, the role of medium viscoelasticity on the cavitation dynamics has received little attention, especially for the bubble collapse strength during multi-bubble cavitation with the complex interactions between size polydisperse bubbles. In this study, modified Gilmore equations accounting for inter-bubble interactions were coupled with the Zener viscoelastic model to simulate the dynamics of multi-bubble cavitation in viscoelastic media. Results showed that the cavitation dynamics (e.g., acoustic resonant response, nonlinear oscillation behavior and bubble collapse strength) of differently-sized bubbles depend differently on the medium viscoelasticity and each bubble is affected by its neighboring bubbles to a different degree. More specifically, increasing medium viscosity drastically dampens the bubble dynamics and weakens the bubble collapse strength, while medium elasticity mainly affects the bubble resonance at which the bubble collapse strength is maximum. Differently-sized bubbles can achieve resonances and even subharmonic resonances at high driving acoustic pressures as the elasticity changes to certain values, and the resonance frequency of each bubble increases with the elasticity increasing. For the interactions between the size polydisperse bubbles, it indicated that the largest bubble generally has a dominant effect on the dynamics of smaller ones while in turn it is almost unaffected, exhibiting a pattern of destructive and constructive interactions. This study provides a valuable insight into the acoustic cavitation dynamics of multiple interacting polydisperse bubbles in viscoelastic media, which may offer a potential of controlling the medium viscoelasticity to appropriately manipulate the dynamics of multi-bubble cavitation for achieving proper cavitation effects according to the desired application.     

Comparison between the 3D numerical simulation and experiment of the bubble near different boundaries

Based on the potential flow theory, the vortex ring is introduced to simulate the toroidal bubble, and the boundary element method is applied to simulate the evolution of the bubble. Elastic-plasticity of structure being taken into account, the interaction between the bubble and the elastic-plastic structure is computed by combining the boundary element method (BEM) and the finite element method (FEM), and a corresponding 3D computing program is developed. This program is used to simulate the three-dimensional bubble dynamics in free field, near wall and near the elastic-plastic structure, and the numerical results are compared with the existing experimental results. The error is within 10%. The effects of different boundaries upon the bubble dynamics are presented by studying the bubble dynamics near different boundaries. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50779007), the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (Grant No. 50809018), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20070217074), the Defense Advanced Research Program of Science and Technology of Ship Industry (Grant No. 07J1.1.6), and Harbin Engineering University Foundation (Grant No. HEUFT07069)     

超声场下刚性界面附近溃灭空化气泡的速度分析

为了揭示刚性界面附近气泡空化参数与微射流的相互关系, 从两气泡控制方程出发, 利用镜像原理, 建立了考虑刚性壁面作用的空化泡动力学模型. 数值对比了刚性界面与自由界面下气泡的运动特性, 并分析了气泡初始半径、气泡到固壁面的距离、声压幅值和超声频率对气泡溃灭的影响. 在此基础上, 建立了气泡溃灭速度和微射流的相互关系. 结果表明: 刚性界面对气泡振动主要起到抑制作用; 气泡溃灭的剧烈程度随气泡初始半径和超声频率的增加而降低, 随着气泡到固壁面距离的增加而增加; 声压幅值存在最优值, 固壁面附近的气泡在该最优值下气泡溃灭最为剧烈; 通过研究气泡溃灭速度和微射流的关系发现, 调节气泡溃灭速度可以达到间接控制微射流的目的.     

Numerical simulations of two-dimensional foam by the immersed boundary method

In this paper, we present an immersed boundary (IB) method to simulate a dry foam, i.e., a foam in which most of the volume is attributed to its gas phase. Dry foam dynamics involves the interaction between a gas and a collection of thin liquid-film internal boundaries that partition the gas into discrete cells or bubbles. The liquid-film boundaries are flexible, contract under the influence of surface tension, and are permeable to the gas, which moves across them by diffusion at a rate proportional to the local pressure difference across the boundary. Such problems are conventionally studied by assuming that the pressure is uniform within each bubble. Here, we introduce instead an IB method that takes into account the non-equilibrium fluid mechanics of the gas. To model gas diffusion across the internal liquid-film boundaries, we allow normal slip between the boundary and the gas at a velocity proportional to the (normal) force generated by the boundary surface tension. We implement this method in the two-dimensional case, and test it by verifying the von Neumann relation, which governs the coarsening of a two-dimensional dry foam. The method is further validated by a convergence study, which confirms its first-order accuracy.