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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2018

Dispersion of Air Bubbles in Isotropic Turbulence

Varghese Mathai
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Sander Huisman
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Chao Sun
Detlef Lohse
Mickaël Bourgoin

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Bubbles play an important role in the transport of chemicals and nutrients in many natural and industrial flows. Their dispersion is crucial to understanding the mixing processes in these flows. Here we report on the dispersion of millimetric air bubbles in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow with a Taylor Reynolds number from 110 to 310. We find that the mean squared displacement (MSD) of the bubbles far exceeds that of fluid tracers in turbulence. The MSD shows two regimes. At short times, it grows ballistically (∝ τ 2), while at larger times, it approaches the diffusive regime where the MSD ∝ τ. Strikingly, for the bubbles, the ballistic-to-diffusive transition occurs one decade earlier than for the fluid. We reveal that both the enhanced dispersion and the early transition to the diffusive regime can be traced back to the unsteady wake-induced motion of the bubbles. Further, the diffusion transition for bubbles is not set by the integral timescale of the turbulence (as it is for fluid tracers and microbubbles), but instead, by a timescale of eddy crossing of the rising bubbles. The present findings provide a Lagrangian perspective towards understanding mixing in turbulent bubbly flows.
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hal-02633784 , version 1 (27-05-2020)

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Varghese Mathai, Sander Huisman, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse, Mickaël Bourgoin. Dispersion of Air Bubbles in Isotropic Turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 2018, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.054501⟩. ⟨hal-02633784⟩
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