Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011njph...13b5002s&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 025002 (2011).
Physics
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Heavy or light particles introduced into a liquid trigger motion due to their buoyancy, with the potential to drive flow to a turbulent state. In the case of vapor bubbles present in a liquid near its boiling point, thermal coupling between the liquid and vapor can moderate this additional motion by reducing temperature gradients in the liquid. Whether the destabilizing mechanical feedback or stabilizing thermal feedback will dominate the system response depends on the number of bubbles present and the properties of the phase change. Here we study thermal convection with phase change in a cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard cell to examine this competition. Using the Reynolds number of the flow as a signature of turbulence and the intensity of the flow, we show that in general the rising vapor bubbles destabilize the system and lead to higher velocities. The exception is a limited regime corresponding to phase change with a high latent heat of vaporization (corresponding to low Jakob number), where the vapor bubbles can eliminate the convective flow by smoothing temperature differences of the fluid.
Lohse Detlef
Oresta Paolo
Prosperetti Andrea
Schmidt Laura E.
Toschi Federico
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