Direct Numerical Simulations of spherical bubbles in vertical turbulent channel flow. Influence of bubble size and bidispersity

Abstract The paper presents two Direct Numerical Simulations of bubble swarms in a vertical turbulent channel flow and is intended as a complement to the companion paper, Santarelli and Frohlich (2015). Both swarms addressed here are composed of spherical bubbles in contaminated fluid with a void fraction of 2.14%, as for the reference case in the companion paper. The first simulation reported is done for a monodisperse swarm of larger bubbles while in the second case a bidisperse swarm is considered. The influence of the bubble size and of the bidispersity is investigated by means of flow visualizations and quantitative statistical analysis. Due to the higher Reynolds number, the behavior of the larger bubbles differs from the one of the small bubbles and this impacts the turbulence of the carrier phase. The results show that for the parameter range considered both swarms induce elongated flow structures in the streamwise direction and that the liquid turbulence is enhanced by the bubbles, as quantified by the budget of the turbulence kinetic energy. In both cases the tendency of bubbles to align horizontally is confirmed while the analysis of mixed pairs in the bidisperse swarm allows elucidating the complex interaction of bubbles of different size.

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