Coalescence Behaviors of Drop Swarms on Liquid-Liquid Interface

• Published in: Transactions of Tianjin University Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 96 - 102
• Main Author: 唐洪涛 陈建平 崔世海
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Tianjin University 01-04-2011; School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300222, China%School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300222, China
• Subjects: Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Mechanical Engineering; multidisciplinary; Science; 分布模型; 强相互作用; 水滴尺寸; 液液界面; 稳定状态; 速度矢量; drop; coalescence; diameter; distribution; trajectory
• ISSN: 1006-4982; 1995-8196
• DOI: 10.1007/s12209-011-1599-z

The trajectory model of dispersed phase drops and distribution model of drop diameters were derived. By numerical simulation, the analytical results indicate that a large number of dispersed phase drops accumulate on the upper plate in different directions and form a hydrodynamic area with the stream-wise location in the range of 0-0.4 m, where the flow of trickling film obtains kinetic drive from flowing field. The flowing field of trickling film exhibits an unstable state if the stream-wise location is less than 0.02 m, and a stable state otherwise. Moreover, different velocity vectors of drops in the x-y plane result in different interactions between the trickling film and drops. For the non-uniform distribution of drop diameters, there is a stronger interaction between the trickling film and drop if the stream-wise location is less than 0.02 m, because the amplitudes of velocity vectors are higher than those in the range of 0.02-1.0 m. The result reveals a complexity and diversity of stratified two-phase flowing field. On the other hand, both the basic flowing field and distributions of drop diameters have a great influence on the distributions of compara- ble kinetic energy of drops. The complicated motions of larger drops are helpful to coalescence because they will con- sume much more kinetic energy on the trickling film than those of smaller drops. The change of comparable kinetic energy of smaller drops is continuous and steady. The smaller drops are easily entrained by the liquid-liquid flowing field.