The flow ideality of bubbly microflow remains unclear even though it is vital for the design of microreactors,especially the ideality of bubble swarm microflow for large-scale gas-liquid microreaction processes.This w...The flow ideality of bubbly microflow remains unclear even though it is vital for the design of microreactors,especially the ideality of bubble swarm microflow for large-scale gas-liquid microreaction processes.This work is the first time to report the ideality analysis of the microbubble swarm in a relatively large microchannel.The bubble swarm microflow has undergone two conditions:quasihomogeneous plug flow and liquid phase/gas-liquid qua si-homogeneous phase two-phase laminar flow.Both the deviations of void fraction and bubble velocity from the ideal plug flow can divide into two parts,and the two transition points simultaneously happen at the velocity ratio of 1.25.There exists a critical capillary number to maintain the quasi-homogeneous plug flow,which could be regarded as the general laws for the design of gas-liquid microreactors.Finally,a novel model is developed to predict the bubble velocity.This work could be very helpful for the large-scale gas-liquid microreactors design.展开更多
The present study proposes a novel method based on the geometric theory for measuring the distribution of bubble swarms in the circular region of a direct-contact heat exchanger.It was determined that the mixing is un...The present study proposes a novel method based on the geometric theory for measuring the distribution of bubble swarms in the circular region of a direct-contact heat exchanger.It was determined that the mixing is uniform when the average distance between the bubble swarms in the unit circular region is approximately 0.9054,which is the standard reference value.The effect of sample size(i.e.,the number of bubbles)on mixing uniformity was investigated to determine the optimal sample size.It was verified that the metric's accuracy and stability were higher with a sample size of 155.Accordingly,it was proposed to increase the sample size by filling irregular bubbles using a segmentation method,which enabled a further accurate assessment of the mixing uniformity.The mixing uniformity of bubble swarms in the circular region and its maximum internal connection with the square region was accurately quantified.It was revealed that the relative average error increased by approximately 3.47% due to information loss.The proposed method was demonstrated to be rotationally invariant.The present study provided novel insights into evaluating mixing uniformity,which would guide enhanced heat transfer and the effective evaluation of the spatiotemporal characteristics of transient mixing in circular regions or the cross-sections of chemical transport pipelines.展开更多
基金financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China(21991104)。
文摘The flow ideality of bubbly microflow remains unclear even though it is vital for the design of microreactors,especially the ideality of bubble swarm microflow for large-scale gas-liquid microreaction processes.This work is the first time to report the ideality analysis of the microbubble swarm in a relatively large microchannel.The bubble swarm microflow has undergone two conditions:quasihomogeneous plug flow and liquid phase/gas-liquid qua si-homogeneous phase two-phase laminar flow.Both the deviations of void fraction and bubble velocity from the ideal plug flow can divide into two parts,and the two transition points simultaneously happen at the velocity ratio of 1.25.There exists a critical capillary number to maintain the quasi-homogeneous plug flow,which could be regarded as the general laws for the design of gas-liquid microreactors.Finally,a novel model is developed to predict the bubble velocity.This work could be very helpful for the large-scale gas-liquid microreactors design.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(project No.52166004)Yunnan Major Scientific and Technological Projects(grant No.202202AG050002)+2 种基金Scientific Research Fund Project of Yunnan Education Department,China(grant No.2021j0063)Natural Science FoundationofYunnan Province,China(grant No.202101AU070031)the teaching projects A Quality Course for Graduate Students in Yunnan Province"Numerical Analysis","Advanced Mathematics Teaching Team of Engineering Subjects of Kunming University of Science and Technology".
文摘The present study proposes a novel method based on the geometric theory for measuring the distribution of bubble swarms in the circular region of a direct-contact heat exchanger.It was determined that the mixing is uniform when the average distance between the bubble swarms in the unit circular region is approximately 0.9054,which is the standard reference value.The effect of sample size(i.e.,the number of bubbles)on mixing uniformity was investigated to determine the optimal sample size.It was verified that the metric's accuracy and stability were higher with a sample size of 155.Accordingly,it was proposed to increase the sample size by filling irregular bubbles using a segmentation method,which enabled a further accurate assessment of the mixing uniformity.The mixing uniformity of bubble swarms in the circular region and its maximum internal connection with the square region was accurately quantified.It was revealed that the relative average error increased by approximately 3.47% due to information loss.The proposed method was demonstrated to be rotationally invariant.The present study provided novel insights into evaluating mixing uniformity,which would guide enhanced heat transfer and the effective evaluation of the spatiotemporal characteristics of transient mixing in circular regions or the cross-sections of chemical transport pipelines.
