A combined viscous-vortex, thermal-blob and Lagrangian method for non-isothermal, two-phase flow modelling

Oyuna Rybdylova, Alexander Osiptsov, Sergei Sazhin, Steven Begg, Morgan Heikal

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Abstract

A meshless method for modelling of 2D transient, non-isothermal, gas-droplet flows with phase transitions, based on a combination of the viscous-vortex and thermal-blob methods for the carrier phase with the Lagrangian approach for the dispersed phase, is developed. The one-way coupled, two-fluid approach is used in the analysis. The method makes it possible to avoid the `remeshing' procedure (recalculation of flow parameters from Eulerian to Lagrangian grids) and reduces the problem to the solution of three systems of ordinary differential equations, describing the motion of viscous-vortex blobs, thermal blobs, and evaporating droplets. The gas velocity field is restored using the Biot-Savart integral. The numerical algorithm is verified against an analytical solution for a non-isothermal Lamb vortex and some asymptotic results known in the literature. The method is applied to modelling of an impulse two-phase cold jet injected into a quiescent hot gas, taking into account droplet evaporation. Various flow patterns are obtained in the calculations, depending on the initial droplet size: (i) low-inertia droplets, evaporating at a higher rate, form ring-like structures and are accumulated only behind the vortex pair; (ii) large droplets move closer to the jet axis, with their sizes remaining almost unchanged; and (iii) intermediate-size droplets are accumulated in a curved band whose ends trail in the periphery behind the head of the cloud, with larger droplets being collected at the front of the two-phase region.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)93-102
Number of pages10
JournalInternational Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Volume58
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Feb 2016

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© 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Keywords

  • Droplets
  • Evaporation
  • Two-phase flow
  • Lagrangian approach
  • Meshless method

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