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An investigation into the effects of heat transfer on the motion of a spherical bubble

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

P. J. Harris
Affiliation:
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, UK; e-mail: [email protected].
H. Al-Awadi
Affiliation:
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, UK; e-mail: [email protected].
W. K. Soh
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
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Abstract

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This paper investigates the effect of heat transfer on the motion of a spherical bubble in the vicinity of a rigid boundary. The effects of heat transfer between the bubble and the surrounding fluid, and the resulting loss of energy from the bubble, can be incorporated into the simple spherical bubble model with the addition of a single extra ordinary differential equation. The numerical results show that for a bubble close to an infiniterigid boundary there are significant differences in both the radius and Kelvin impulse of the bubble when the heat transfer effects are included.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2004

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