液滴碰撞液膜润湿壁面空气夹带数值分析

采用复合水平集-流体体积法并综合考虑传热及接触热阻的作用, 对液滴碰撞液膜润湿壁面空气夹带现象进行了数值分析. 揭示了夹带空气形成机理, 探索了夹带空气特性参数随碰撞速度和液膜厚度的变化规律, 获得了夹带空气作用下液滴碰撞润湿壁面的传热机理. 研究结果表明: 撞壁前气液两相压力差是引起气液相界面拓扑结构变化以及夹带空气形成的主要原因; 液滴碰撞速度与压缩空气层内压力以及相界面形变高度密切相关; 液滴接触液膜时, 碰撞轴上液滴底部和液膜表面速度相等, 大约是碰撞速度的1/2; 碰撞速度对夹带空气层底部到破碎点的无量纲弧长和最大无量纲夹带空气直径均存在较大的影响; 液滴和液膜的无量纲形变高度与斯托克斯数密切相关; 液膜初始厚度对液滴和液膜的无量纲形变高度和最大无量纲夹带空气直径影响较大; 撞壁初始阶段, 碰撞中心区域夹带空气对壁面热流密度分布存在较大的影响.     

液滴撞击圆柱内表面的数值研究

针对液滴撞击圆柱内表面的过程,利用基于相场的格子Boltzmann方法模拟液滴以不同初速度、从不同初始高度、撞击不同大小的圆柱内表面时液滴的形态变化,分析了液滴自身物性(如密度和黏性等)和圆柱内表面润湿性等因素对撞击现象的具体影响.研究发现:撞击韦伯数、密度比及动力黏性比、圆柱半径等对液滴撞击后沿圆柱内表面的铺展均有一定影响,较高的韦伯数下液滴可能会发生分裂;液滴初始高度对大密度比和动力黏性比的撞击影响较小;液滴反弹现象可能出现在接触角较大时;重力作用会抑制撞击后液滴的振荡.     

直接甲醇燃料电池阴极水淹过程实验研究

对自制可视化直接甲醇燃料电池单体阴极流场内液滴生长特性、氧气流量和氧气进气温度对流场水淹及电池性能的影响进行了实验研究.结果表明:平行流场中首个液滴大多在流场右上区域冒出;流场中新液滴的出现具有瞬间涌出特性,并优先在流场板和扩散层交界的夹角处及扩散层表面碳纤维束交叉处产生;液滴生长过程具有非连续性,与流道边壁相接触的液滴和液柱的生长速度均大于未接触流道边壁的液滴生长速度,而且液柱有逆气流方向反向生长现象.氧气流量及氧气进气温度的升高,均导致阴极流道内液态水和流场中大液滴数量及形成液柱的长度减少,促使电池性能提高.     

中空液滴碰撞水平壁面数值分析

采用耦合水平集-体积分数法并综合考虑传热及接触热阻作用建立了中空液滴碰撞水平壁面数值模型,并验证了模型的可靠性.通过分析计算结果,获得了中空液滴与实心液滴撞壁的动力学特征差异,揭示了中空液滴撞壁流动传热机理和中心射流形成机制,探索了碰撞速度和壁面浸润性对中空液滴撞壁动力学和传热特性的影响.研究表明:中空液滴撞壁后中心射流特征明显,并伴随有射流收缩和液壳破碎等现象.中空液滴内部压力梯度是液滴铺展、中心射流产生和发展的主要原因;撞壁过程中中心射流表面温度分布较为均匀,破碎液壳表面温度分布波动较大.碰撞速度与中空液滴撞壁最大铺展系数的相关性较小,但其对无量纲射流长度和壁面平均热流密度的影响较大;壁面浸润性与中空液滴撞壁后期铺展系数的相关性较大,但其对无量纲射流长度和壁面平均热流密度的影响较小.     

非对称布置液滴在波纹状基底上的聚并过程

基于润滑理论建立在波纹基底上两个含表面活性剂液滴聚并的演化模型，模拟液滴位于波纹基底波峰和波谷处的聚并过程，分析液滴初始间距和基底高度对聚并的影响，并与对称布置液滴进行比较.结果表明：液滴高度随时间呈现五个阶段变化；活性剂浓度在短时间内完成三个阶段变化；初始间距的增大将延长液滴及活性剂聚并时间；增大基底高度将缩短液滴及活性剂聚并时间；非对称液滴相较于对称液滴聚并时间短，聚并速度快.     

星载激光多普勒测风雷达鉴频系统仿真(Ⅱ):基于Fabry-Perot标准具的Rayleigh通道大气风速反演研究

基于星载激光多普勒测风雷达工作原理,构建了基于连续双通道Fabry-Perot(F-P)标准具的鉴频仿真系统,仿真研究了Rayleigh通道大气风速反演算法,系统分析了Rayleigh-Brillouin效应和Mie干扰信号对Rayleigh通道反演大气视线(LOS)风速的影响,并利用无线电探空数据集仿真结果统计分析了Rayleigh通道大气水平视线(HLOS)风速反演误差.结果表明,基于连续双通道F-P标准具的Rayleigh通道可反演中高层大气风速;Rayleigh-Brillouin效应和Mie干扰信号影响Rayleigh通道LOS风速反演精度;Rayleigh通道风速反演对温度精度要求最高,在晴空条件下可忽略Mie干扰信号的影响;不考虑Brillouin效应时,高度2 km以下Rayleigh通道无法反演HLOS风速,高度2 km以上Rayleigh通道反演的HLOS风速误差小于0.4 m·s-1,风速标准差在1—4 m·s-1之间;同Mie通道一样,气溶胶和云的分布影响Rayleigh通道HLOS风速反演误差.研究结果对发展星载激光雷达测风技术具有重要参考意义.     

表面特性对矩形小流道内液滴脱离现象的影响

本文设计了一个可视化微小平直流道,利用摄影装置观察记录了液态水通过平板内部直径70μm的微孔在水平平板表面上形成液滴并成长直至脱离的过程,分析了不同流道高度条件下接触角之差与液滴高度和通道内流动空气的雷诺数的关系,并且进一步讨论了平板表面特性对液滴脱离高度和接触角之差的影响.     

超临界水流化床内两相流特性的数值模拟研究

本文基于欧拉双流体模型和颗粒动理学理论,对超临界水流化床反应器内气固两相流特性进行数值模拟,模拟获得了超临界水流化床反应器内颗粒分布特性和最小流化速度,分析了表观速度、压力、温度、初始床层高度对超临界水流化床流动特性的影响.本文的研究对超临界水流化床反应器结构的设计及操作条件的优化具有重要的指导意义.     

壁载纤维素酶微反应器内传递及转化特性

壁载纤维素酶微反应器能够实现纤维素类生物质水解制备葡萄糖,为后续微生物能源转化提供原料。本文对壁载纤维素酶微反应器内羧甲基纤维素模型化合物的酶解糖化进行了实验与模拟研究,获得了内表面结构对微反应器物质传递及酶解反应的影响规律。模拟结果表明,相较于等边三角形、半圆形等内表面结构,设置高矩形结构对微反应器内葡萄糖生产的促进显著。此外,具有高矩形结构的微反应器单位压降下的出口葡萄糖浓度最高,有利于实际应用。相较于增加表面结构尺寸,减小结构间距具有更好的强化效果。在最适表面结构参数下,对于不同黏度的酶解反应,出口平均葡萄糖浓度的提升率均高于7.0%。     

肥皂泡破裂现象及产生小液滴分布研究

肥皂泡破裂产生液滴的大小和数目受破裂过程影响.本文研究了肥皂泡大小和高度对破裂产生液滴的影响,以及所产生液滴的分布规律.实验发现肥皂泡破裂产生的液滴在破裂高度较低时存在放射性线状分布现象;随着高度增加放射性线状分布消失;同时分析了肥皂泡破裂产生液滴的数目及肥皂膜的厚度随肥皂泡体积的变化规律.结果表明,肥皂泡体积和液滴数目之间存在幂函数关系,理想情况下肥皂膜厚度与碎片数目之间也存在幂函数关系.肥皂泡破裂过程中产生的液滴可以按照拟合结果大致分为小碎片,中等碎片和大碎片,它们分别对应于肥皂泡破裂过程的3个变化阶段.     

In液滴在GaAs(001)表面扩散行为的研究

量子点的物理与光电性质主要依赖于其尺寸及密度参数,而量子点的密度、高度等参数又控制着原子在衬底上的成核行为。本文采用液滴外延法在GaAs(001)表面生长金属In液滴,研究了In液滴的扩散运动与衬底温度和沉积速率之间的关系,研究发现,随着衬底温度的升高和沉积速率的降低,In液滴尺寸增大密度却降低。通过得到的实验数据,拟合关于In液滴密度与衬底温度和沉积速率的曲线,分析了量子环的生长机制,并根据原子的表面迁移行为,进一步分析其表面原子扩散机理。     

Self Similarity of Cross‐Stream Droplet Momentum Displacement in Dispersed Multiphase Flow

Analytical methods are developed and applied to droplet motion, as it relates to aircraft icing. Impinging droplets largely affect the heat balance at an iced aircraft surface, as well as the final ice shape. In this study, a similarity solution of the Eulerian droplet momentum equation is developed. Droplet motion near a flat plate is investigated with a similarity solution. By using scaling, sensitivity, order of magnitude and similarity methods, a momentum displacement of droplets (or particles) due to the presence of the solid surface is predicted. Self similarity of the droplet profiles is established, such that downstream propagation can be expressed in terms of a single independent coordinate. Limiting trends of momentum/drag induced and Blasius‐diffusion profiles are found to identify the spatial range encompassing the droplet motion. The predicted results are successfully compared against the scaling requirements.     

Numerical simulation of two droplets impacting upon a dynamic liquid film

The impact of droplets on the liquid film is widely involved in industrial and agricultural fields. In recent years, plenty of works are limited to dry walls or stationary liquid films, and the research of multi-droplet impact dynamic films is not sufficient. Based on this, this paper employs a coupled level set and volume of fluid (CLSVOF) method to numerically simulate two-droplet impingement on a dynamic liquid film. In our work, the dynamic film thickness, horizontal central distance between the droplets, droplets' initial impact speed, and simultaneously the flow velocity of the moving film are analyzed. The evolution phenomenon and mechanism caused by the collision are analyzed in detail. We find that within a certain period of time, the droplet spacing does not affect the peripheral crown height; when the droplet spacing decreases or the initial impact velocity increases, the height of the peripheral crown increases at the beginning, and then, because the crown splashed under Rayleigh-Plateau instability, this results in the reduction of the crown height. At the same time, it is found that when the initial impact velocity increases, the angle between the upstream peripheral jet and the dynamic film becomes larger. The more obvious the horizontal movement characteristics, the more restrained the crown height; the spread length increases with the increase of the dynamic film speed, droplet spacing and the initial impact velocity. When the liquid film is thicker, more fluid enters the crown, due to the crown being unstable, the surface tension is not enough to overcome the weight of the rim at the end of the crown, resulting in droplets falling off.     

Correlations to predict droplet size in ultrasonic atomisation.

In conventional two fluid nozzles, the high velocity air imparts its energy to the liquid and disrupts the liquid sheet into droplets. If the energy for liquid sheet fragmentation can be supplied by the use of ultrasonic energy, finer droplets with high sphericity and uniform size distribution can be achieved. The other advantage of ultrasound induced atomisation process is the lower momentum associated with ejected droplets compared to the momentum carried by the droplets formed using conventional nozzles. This has advantage in coating and granulation processes. An ultrasonic probe sonicator was designed with a facility for liquid feed arrangement and was used to atomise the liquid into droplets. An ingenious method of droplet measurement was attempted by capturing the droplets on a filter paper (size variation with regard to wicking was uniform in all cases) and these are subjected to image analysis to obtain the droplet sizes. This procedure was evaluated by high-speed photography of droplets ejected at one particular experimental condition and these were image analysed. The correlations proposed in the literature to predict droplet sizes using ultrasound do not take into account all the relevant parameters. In this work, a truly universal correlation is proposed which accounts for the effects of physico-chemical properties of the liquid (flow rate, viscosity, density and surface tension), and ultrasonic properties like amplitude, frequency and the area of vibrating surface. The significant contribution of this work is to define dimensionless numbers incorporating ultrasonic parameters, taking cue from the conventional numbers that define the significance of different forces involved in droplet formation. The universal correlations proposed are robust and can be used for designing ultrasonic atomisers for different applications. Among the correlations proposed here, those ones that are based on the dimensionless numbers and Davies approach predict droplet sizes within acceptable limits of deviation. Also, an empirical correlation from experimental data has been proposed in this work.     

A discrete droplet transport model for predicting spray coating patterns of an electrostatic rotary atomizer

Electrostatic spray (E-spray) coating is widely used for coating conductive substrates. The combination of a high-velocity shaping air, an imposed electric field and charged droplets, leads to higher transfer efficiency than conventional spray coating. In this paper, a mathematical model of droplet transport in E-spray is presented which enables simulating the coating deposition rate profile. A dilute spray assumption (no particle–particle interactions) allows modeling single-droplet trajectories resulting from a balance of electrostatic force, drag and inertia. Atomization of liquid droplets is not modeled explicitly—rather an empirical correlation is used for the mean droplet size while individual droplet sizes and starting locations are determined using random distributions. Strong coupling requires the electrostatic field and droplet trajectories be determined iteratively by successive substitution with relaxation. The influences of bell-cup voltage and atomization constant on the coating deposition rate profile, mass transfer efficiency and droplet trajectories are also shown. Using individually predicted droplet trajectories and impact locations, a static coating deposition rate profiles is determined. For the parametric values considered in this paper, the predicted spray is a cone hollow with no deposition in the center, a heavy ring near the center, and a tapering of thickness toward the outer edge.     

Total Integration of the Sample Injection,Microdroplet Reaction,Phase Separation,Real-Time Optical Detection,and Recovery of Diverse Silver–Gold Bimetallic Nanoalloys in a Continuous Process

Microfluidic droplet generators have garnered great attention due to the uniformity, high-throughput capability, and facile experimental setup. To maximize the potentials of droplet technology as a chemical/biological nanoliter-scale reactor, the downstream processes such as separation of the aqueous and oil phase, real-time monitoring of the products formed in droplets, and the final product recovery from the droplets is necessary. In this study, the droplet is utilized as a chemical reactor to synthesize a variety of Ag and Au bimetallic nanoalloys in a fully integrated microsystem including sample injection, a T-junction droplet generator, droplet reaction, water–oil phase separation, real-time UV–vis absorbance detection, and product recovery. The flow rate of the Ag nanoparticle (NP) solution and the HAuCl₄ solution was tuned to generate different molar ratios of Ag and Au components. The in-line UV–vis absorbance spectrometer displays a peak shift of the Ag/Au bimetallic alloys depending on the molar ratio of Ag/Au in the continuous process, enabling to judge the kind of the Ag/Au alloys in situ and collect a variety of Ag/Au nanoalloys. Thus, the desired nanomaterials can be obtained with minimal trial and error, saving time and cost.     

Numerical study on the desorption processes of oil droplets inside oil-contaminated sand under cavitation micro-jets

The removal of the adsorbed oil droplet is critical to deoiling treatment of oil-bearing solid waste. Ultrasonic cavitation is regarded as an extremely useful method to assist the oil droplets desorption in the deoiling treatment. In this paper, the effects of cavitation micro-jets on the oil droplets desorption were studied. The adsorbed states of oil droplets in the oil-contaminated sand were investigated using a microscope. Three representative absorbed states of the oil droplets can be summarized as: (1) the individual oil droplet adsorbed on the particle surface (2) the clustered oil droplets adsorbed on the particle surface; (3) the oil droplet adsorbed in a gap between particles. The micro-jet generation during the bubble collapse near a rigid wall under different acoustic pressure amplitudes at an ultrasonic frequency of 20 kHz was investigated numerically. The desorption processes of the oil droplets at the three representative absorbed states under micro-jets were also simulated subsequently. The results showed that the acoustic pressure has a great influence on the velocity of micro-jet, and the initial diameter of cavitation bubbles is significant for the cross-sectional area of micro-jets. The wall jet caused by a micro-jet impacting on the solid wall is the most important factor for the removal of the absorbed oil droplets. The oil droplet is broken by the jet impinging, and then it breaks away from the solid wall due to the shear force generated by the wall jet. In addition to a higher sound pressure, the cavitation bubble at a larger initial diameter is more important for the desorption of the clustered oil droplets. Conversely, the micro-jet generated by the cavitation bubble at a smaller initial diameter (0.1 mm) is more appropriate for the desorption of the oil droplet in a narrow or sharp-angled gap.     

Field-induced formation and manipulation of a microscale liquid ball on an outside wall of the pulled pipette

We report a phenomenological observation of electric-field-induced formation and manipulation of liquid ball on an outer wall of the pulled pipette by using the quartz tuning fork-based atomic force microscope (QTF-AFM). The dye molecule solution with excitation wavelength of 488 nm and detection efficiency of 95% is used to investigate the movement characteristics of liquid droplets when the electric field is applied. The ejected liquid solution forms a microscale liquid droplet at the apex of the pipette by the application of electric field, containing dye molecules, which climbs up along the negatively charged outer surface of the pipette due to the electro-osmosis effect. With positive or negative bias voltages, we manipulate a liquid ball to slide upward or downward, respectively. This field-induced transport of a liquid droplet may be useful to nano-biotechnology or droplet-based microfluidic technology, for example, noncontact delivery and manipulation of liquid solution in the form of separated droplets.     

液滴撞击不同湿润性固壁面上静止液滴的格子Boltzmann研究

采用单组分多相的伪势格子Boltzmann方法,在大小液滴粒径比为1.5的情况下,对大液滴竖直撞击壁面上静止小液滴的过程进行模拟,研究亲水与超疏水壁面上大液滴竖直碰撞小液滴的过程,得到液滴铺展因子和相对高度随时间的变化。结果表明：增大We数会使液滴的铺展因子增大,铺展直径变大,相对高度减小;并且随着We数的增加,在超疏水表面,液滴在铺展过程中底部会出现空腔,空腔大小随着We数增大而增加;此外,We数增加到107.35时,液滴发生了断裂。     

小液滴撞击壁面传热特性数值分析

小液滴撞击壁面现象在喷雾冷却等领域都有广泛应用.为研究小液滴(微米)撞击热壁面(非沸腾区)传热过程,建立了二维液滴撞壁瞬态模型,并采用相场方法对小液滴换热过程中对流热通量和导热热通量的大小进行了对比.研究结果表明:液滴撞击壁面初期形成“冷斑”,有利于小液滴与壁面的传热;小液滴撞击壁面过程中热通量峰值存在于三相接触点附近,数量级在105—106 W/m²;小液滴撞击壁面过程中受壁面浸润性和液滴尺寸对传导热通量的影响较为显著,而速度和液滴尺寸对对流热通量的影响较为显著;大多数情况下,小液滴撞击壁面传导热通量数量级在103—105 W/m²,对流热通量数量级在104—106 W/m²,对流热通量大于传导热通量,在整个换热过程中占据主导地位.