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Bubble deformation by a turbulent flow

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Stéphane Perrard Open the ORCID record for Stéphane Perrard [Opens in a new window] ,
Aliénor Rivière Open the ORCID record for Aliénor Rivière [Opens in a new window] ,
Wouter Mostert Open the ORCID record for Wouter Mostert [Opens in a new window]  and
Luc Deike Open the ORCID record for Luc Deike [Opens in a new window]
Stéphane Perrard
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA LPENS, Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, 75005Paris, France
Aliénor Rivière
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA LPENS, Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, 75005Paris, France
Wouter Mostert
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO65401, USA
Luc Deike*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: ldeike@princeton.edu
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Abstract

We investigate the modes of deformation of an initially spherical bubble immersed in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent background flow. We perform direct numerical simulations of the two-phase incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, considering a low-density bubble in the high-density turbulent flow at various Weber numbers (the ratio of turbulent and surface tension forces) using the air–water density ratio. We discuss a theoretical framework for the bubble deformation in a turbulent flow using a spherical harmonic decomposition. We propose, for each mode of bubble deformation, a forcing term given by the statistics of velocity and pressure fluctuations, evaluated on a sphere of the same radius. This approach formally relates the bubble deformation and the background turbulent velocity fluctuations, in the limit of small deformations. The growth of the total surface deformation and of each individual mode is computed from the direct numerical simulations using an appropriate Voronoi decomposition of the bubble surface. We show that two successive temporal regimes occur: the first regime corresponds to deformations driven only by inertial forces, with the interface deformation growing linearly in time, in agreement with the model predictions, whereas the second regime results from a balance between inertial forces and surface tension. The transition time between the two regimes is given by the period of the first Rayleigh mode of bubble oscillation. We discuss how our approach can be used to relate the bubble lifetime to the turbulence statistics and eventually show that at high Weber numbers, bubble lifetime can be deduced from the statistics of turbulent fluctuations at the bubble scale.

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Drops and Bubbles: Bubble dynamics Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Multiphase flow

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 920 , 10 August 2021 , A15
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