Numerical Study and Experimental Comparison of Two-Phase Flow Generation in a T-Junction

This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical study of the bubble generation process in a micro T-junction, performed with the commercial computational fluid dynamics solver ANSYS Fluent, version 15.0.7. Numerical results on the bubble generation frequency, bubble velocity, volume void fraction,...

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Autores: Arias Calderón, Santiago|||0000-0001-9233-0178, Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de|||0000-0002-0243-668X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/102497
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/102497
https://dx.doi.org/10.2514/1.J055387
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Two-phase flow
Bubbles
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Dinàmica de fluids computacional
Bombolles
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical study of the bubble generation process in a micro T-junction, performed with the commercial computational fluid dynamics solver ANSYS Fluent, version 15.0.7. Numerical results on the bubble generation frequency, bubble velocity, volume void fraction, bubble volume, and characteristic bubble lengths are compared with experimental data. Additionally, a new simple fitting for the bubble generation frequency, based upon previously reported experimental works, is proposed here.