Mechanism of damped oscillation in microbubble coalescence
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Ron | |
dc.contributor.author | Zeng, Jianhuan | |
dc.contributor.author | Yu, Huidan (Whitney) | |
dc.contributor.department | Mechanical and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-04T15:44:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-04T15:44:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | This work is part of our continuous research effort to reveal the underlying physics of bubble coalescence in microfluidics through the GPU-accelerated lattice Boltzmann method. We numerically explore the mechanism of damped oscillation in microbubble coalescence characterized by the Ohnesorge (Oh) number. The focus is to address when and how a damped oscillation occurs during a coalescence process. Sixteen cases with a range of Oh numbers from 0.039 to 1.543, varying in liquid viscosity from 0.002 to 0.08kg/(m · s) correspondingly, are systematically studied. First, a criterion of with or without damped oscillation has been established. It is found that a larger Oh enables faster/slower bubble coalescence with/without damped oscillation when (Oh < 0.477)/(Oh > 0.477) and the fastest coalescence falls at Oh ≈ 0.477. Second, the mechanism behind damped oscillation is explored in terms of the competition between driving and resisting forces. When Oh is small in the range of Oh < 0.477, the energy dissipation due to viscous effect is insignificant, sufficient surface energy initiates a strong inertia and overshoots the neck movement. It results in a successive energy transformation between surface energy and kinetic energy of the coalescing bubble. Through an analogy to the conventional damped harmonic oscillator, the saddle-point trajectory over the entire oscillation can be well predicted analytically. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's manuscript | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Chen, R., Zeng, J., & Yu, H. (2019). Mechanism of damped oscillation in microbubble coalescence. Computers & Fluids, 183, 38–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2019.03.008 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/18778 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1016/j.compfluid.2019.03.008 | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Computers & Fluids | en_US |
dc.rights | Publisher Policy | en_US |
dc.source | Author | en_US |
dc.subject | microbubble coalescence | en_US |
dc.subject | damped oscillation | en_US |
dc.subject | damped harmonic oscillator | en_US |
dc.title | Mechanism of damped oscillation in microbubble coalescence | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |