Numerical and experimental study of bubble entrainment due to a horizontal plunging jet

Issue title: Papers from the 29th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, 26–31 August 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hsiao, C.-T.^; | Wu, X. | Ma, J. | Chahine, G.L.

Affiliations: Dynaflow, Inc., Jessup, MD, USA

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: Ctsung@dynaflow-inc.com

Abstract: Free surface disruption, bubble entrainment, and resulting bubbly wake due to a stationary and moving horizontal jets plunging into a quiescent liquid were studied both numerically and experimentally. The moving jet wake showed significantly different flow characteristics than the stationary jet wake. High speed videos revealed that large vortical structures with entrapped air were generated periodically from the horizontal plunging jet. Each vortical air pocket broke up into multiple bubbles due to local shear flows as it returned toward the free surface and moved downstream. The frequency of the air pocket occurrence was analyzed and found to scale with the plunging jet flow and geometry conditions. The plunging dynamics was simulated with an Eulerian/Lagrangian one-way coupled two-phase flow model, which included a Level-Set method and a sub-grid bubble entrainment model. These captured free surface dynamics and predicted the bubble generation and entrainment. The flow structures, velocity field, and overall bubble spreading region near the plunging region were well captured by the numerical model. Further improvement on downstream wake flow is being sought through two-way coupling between the two phases since the one-way coupling does not account properly for the effective density.

Keywords: Plunging jet, bubble entrainment, two-phase flow model

DOI: 10.3233/ISP-130093

Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 60, no. 1-4, pp. 435-469, 2013