Multiphase Science and Technology A Quarterly

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2003, Volume15

Issue 1-4

404 pages

DOI: 10.1615/MultScienTechn.v15.i1-4

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Akimi Serizawa
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

Akio Tomiyama
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan

This contribution discusses the behaviour of single bubbles and bubble structures in adiabatic bubbly pipe flow. The liquid velocity fields induced by single small bubbles, by small Taylor bubbles, by bubble swarms and by bubble clusters are discussed and illustrated by computational simulations. Next, the forces on single bubbles are reviewed; it is shown that, within certain ranges of bubble size, the force on the bubble (and hence its terminal rise velocity) may be strongly affected by small initial distortions in the bubble. Finally, questions of bubble clustering and coalescence are discussed.

DOI: 10.1615/MultScienTechn.v15.i1-4.80 Download article, 79-98 pages

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