Mercury scaling of a swirling jet micro-bubble generator

Stuart Walker, Arthur Ruggles

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Abstract

Swirling jets with co-axial gas filament flow have been used for production of small bubbles in environmental and chemical processing industries for some time. The modeling of the physics for the gas filament break-up is not well established, and this impedes scaling of the device to use with fluids other than water and organics where data is available. High speed photographic studies of the gas filament break-up are used to examine the physical phenomena, and support model development for the bubble production that may be used to scale the device to alternate applications, such as bubble production in liquid metals. Bubble break-up models based on energy dissipation generate a power-law, with exponent of a = 8 5, relating Weber number to Reynolds number at the nozzle exit. Those models are compared to empirical models found in the literature providing a link between mechanistic models, scaling arguments, and legacy empirical models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ICNMM2010
Pages1261-1267
Number of pages7
EditionPARTS A AND B
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM2010 Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting - Montreal, QC, Canada
Duration: Aug 1 2010Aug 5 2010

Publication series

NameASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ICNMM2010
NumberPARTS A AND B

Conference

ConferenceASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM2010 Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal, QC
Period08/1/1008/5/10

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