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卷 8, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr8020242
关键词
shear thinning fluids; Taylor bubbles; microfluidics; carboxymethylcellulose solutions; volume of fluid method; computational fluid dynamics
资金
- FEDER funds through COMPETE2020-Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors (POCI)
- National Funds (PIDDAC) through FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia) [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031758, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016861-PTDC/QEQ-FTT/4287/2014, PD/BD/114313/2016]
- Transport Phenomena Research Center (CEFT) base funding [UIDB/00532/2020]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PD/BD/114313/2016] Funding Source: FCT
Slug flow is a multiphase flow pattern characterized by the occurrence of long gas bubbles (Taylor bubbles) separated by liquid slugs. This multiphase flow regime is present in many and diversified natural and industrial processes, at macro and microscales, such as in eruption of volcanic magmas, oil recovery from pre-salt regions, micro heat exchangers, and small-sized refrigerating systems. Previous studies in the literature have been mostly focused on tubular gas bubbles flowing in Newtonian liquids. In this work, results from several numerical simulations of tubular gas bubbles flowing in a shear thinning liquid in microchannels are reported. To simulate the shear thinning behavior, carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) solutions with different concentrations were considered. The results are compared with data from bubbles flowing in Newtonian liquids in identical geometric and dynamic conditions. The numerical work was carried out in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package Ansys Fluent (release 16.2.0) employing the volume of fluid (VOF) methodology to track the volume fraction of each phase and the continuum surface force (CSF) model to insert the surface tension effects. The flow patterns, the viscosity distribution in the liquid, the liquid film thickness between the bubble and the wall, and the bubbles shape are analyzed for a wide range of shear rates. In general, the flow patterns are similar to those in Newtonian liquids, but in the film, where a high viscosity region is observed, the thickness is smaller. Bubble velocities are smaller for the non-Newtonian cases.
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