Interfacial force study on a single bubble in laminar and turbulent flows

Abstract Two-phase flows are present in various industrial processes in engineering fields ranging from light water reactor engineering to petrochemical engineering. In this paper, we conduct the interfacial force study on a single bubble under both laminar and turbulent flow scenarios. Advanced finite-element based flow solver (PHASTA) with level-set interface tracking method is used to perform the studies. The interface tracking approach is verified and validated by analyzing the interfacial forces, i.e., drag and lift forces, and comparing the results with the experiment-based data and correlations. The sign change of transverse migration direction is observed at Eo = 3.4 which is close to the experimental observations. A set of parametric studies, including relative velocity, bubble deformability and turbulent intensity, are performed to analyze the impact of homogeneous turbulent flow on the drag force. A new drag coefficient closure model is proposed which agrees well with the DNS data considering both laminar and turbulent flow. Those studies can complement the experimental database to obtain improved closure laws for interfacial forces and are important contribution to the multiphase computational fluid dynamics (M-CFD) closure model development.

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