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Bubbles rising in an inclined two-dimensional tube and jets falling along a wall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

J. Lee  and
J.-M. Vanden-Broeck
J. Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Kwang Woon University, Wolgye-dong Nowon-Gu, Seoul 139–701, Korea
J.-M. Vanden-Broeck
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Center for the Mathematical SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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The motion of a two-dimensional bubble rising at a constant velocity U in an inclined tube of width H is considered. The bubble extends downwards without limit, and is bounded on the right by a wall of the tube, and on the left by a free surface. The same flow configuration describes also a jet emerging from a nozzle and falling down along an inclined wall. The acceleration of gravity g and the surface tension T are included in the free surface condition. The problem is characterized by the Froude number the angle β between the left wall and the horizontal, and the angle γ between the free surface and the right wall at the separation point. Numerical solutions are obtained via series truncation for all values of 0 < β < π. The results extend previous calculations of Vanden-Broeck [12–14] for β = π/2 and of Couët and Strumolo [3] for 0 < β < π/2. It is found that the behavior of the solutions depends on whether 0 < β 2π/3 or 2π/3 ≤ β < π. When T = 0, it is shown that there is a critical value F of Froude number for each 0 < β 2π/3 such that solutions with γ = 0, π/3 and π - β occur for F > Fc F = Fc and F < Fc respectively, and that all solutions are characterized by γ = 0 for 2π/3 ≤ β < π. When a small amount of surface tension T is included in the free surface condition, it is found that for each 0 < β < π there exists an infinite discrete set of values of F for which γ = π - β. A particular value F* of the Froude number for which T = 0 and γ = π - β is selected by taking the limit as T approaches zero. The numerical values of F* and the corresponding free surface profiles are found to be in good agreement with experimental data for bubbles rising in an inclined tube when 0 < β < π/2.

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Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , January 1998 , pp. 332 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1998

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