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Title: Advection-enhanced heat and mass transport from neutrally suspended droplet in simple shear flow
Advection-enhanced heat and mass transport from a single droplet neutrally suspended in a simple shear flow has been studied using high-fidelity numerical simulation. The capillary number ranges from 0.01 to 0.5, which encompasses the entire range of small deformation, large deformation, and breakup of the droplets. The Reynolds number is from 0.01 to 1, including regions of both weak and strong advection. The temperature and mass concentration are modeled as the concentration of a passive scalar released at the droplet surface. Two Schmidt numbers, 10 and 100, are considered, for which flow advection plays a role in the transport of passive scalar. For unbroken droplets, the interaction between the carrier fluid and the suspended droplet leads to several different flows around the droplet. The fluid motions together with scalar diffusion constitute a coupled transport mechanism for passive scalar. The dependence of scalar release rate on Reynolds and Peclet numbers can be roughly described by the correlation for a rigid sphere. For broken droplets, the basic flow features around the droplet during the process of elongation and breakup are similar to those of an unbroken droplet. The variation of the scalar release rate can be decomposed into several stages, corresponding to the process of droplet elongation and breakup. The variation of the scalar release rate exhibits a high correlation with the capillary, Reynolds, and Peclet numbers. This suggests that it is feasible to develop an empirical model that incorporates the effects of the number and size distributions of child droplets after breakup.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2138740
PAR ID:
10488591
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
AIP Publishing
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physics of Fluids
Volume:
35
Issue:
6
ISSN:
1070-6631
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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