71th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 18, 2018 — November 20, 2018)

V0014: Droplets, emulsions and bubbles in homogeneous shear flow

Authors
  • Marco Edoardo Rosti, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Zhouyang Ge, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Suhas Suresh Jain, Stanford University
  • Michael Steven Dodd, Stanford University
  • Luca Brandt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2018.GFM.V0014

The understanding of turbulent two-phase flows with droplets or bubbles is important in many natural and industrial processes, e.g., rain formation, breaking ocean waves, spray cooling, and spray atomization in combustors. In these flows, the turbulence is altered by the droplets/bubbles feedback on the surrounding fluid and, indirectly, by their mutual interaction. Indeed, droplets and bubbles can deform, develop internal circulation, break up and coalesce, thus, complex mechanisms are expected to be active. We present numerical simulations of the flow of two incompressible and immiscible fluids in a homogeneous shear turbulent flow.

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