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From passive tracer to bubbles dispersion in Taylor-Couette flows

Climent, Éric and Nemri, Marouan and Chouippe, Agathe and Gabillet, Céline and Charton, Sophie and Legendre, Dominique From passive tracer to bubbles dispersion in Taylor-Couette flows. (2012) In: ICTAM 2012, 19 August 2012 - 24 August 2012 (Beijing, China). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

We investigate dispersion of passive tracer and bubble preferential accumulation in the flow between two concentric cylinders. The dispersive characteristics are analysed for Taylor Vortex Flow, Wavy Vortex Flows and fully Turbulent Taylor-Couette flows. Experiments based on flow visualization, PIV and PLIF measurements are compared to direct numerical simulations of Navier-Stokes equations coupled to Lagrangian tracking of fluid elements and bubbles. In vortical flows, bubble accumulation is driven by a competition between added-mass effect, lift and buoyancy forces. At low to moderate Reynolds numbers, the flow is strongly coherent and bubble accumulation patterns can be predicted theoretically (stability analysis of fixed points). When turbulence sets in, small scale structures enhance dispersion. This complex situation where large-scale coherent structures interact with fine scale turbulence leads to bubble mixing which have been analyzed by numerical simulations. Several distributions of bubbles are observed depending on the respective magnitude of turbulence and buoyancy force.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
HAL Id:hal-04022775
Audience (conference):International conference proceedings
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Institution:French research institutions > Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives - CEA (FRANCE)
French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE)
Other partners > Ecole Navale (FRANCE)
Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE)
Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE)
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