| Study on the shape and motion of bubbles in the tank model with a central column aboard the Chinese Space Station | |
Chen ST(陈上通)1,2; Hu L(胡良)1,2 ; Chen SY(陈舒扬)1,2; Zhang P(张璞)1,2; Chen Y(陈一)1,2; Chen ZW(陈哲文)1,2; Liu, Xiaozhong3; Zhao, Xilin4; Wu D(吴笛)1,2; Wang J(王佳)1,2; Ye ZJ(叶致君)1,2; Duan L(段俐)1,2; Yin, Yongli3; Kang Q(康琦)1,2
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| Corresponding Author | Kang, Qi([email protected]) |
| Source Publication | PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
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| 2024 | |
| Volume | 36Issue:1Pages:14 |
| ISSN | 1070-6631 |
| Abstract | It is of great significance for fluid management under microgravity to explore the morphological characteristics of annular bubbles in a tank with a central column. The propellant residue can be evaluated by measuring the annular bubble's volume, and the estimation of the mass center of tanks also needs to know the liquid distribution. An experiment cabin is designed and the experiments of filling and emptying the tank model are carried out aboard the Chinese Space Station. Two kinds of annular bubbles surrounding the central column under microgravity are observed experimentally for the first time, which appear during the processes of filling and emptying the tank model, respectively. Furthermore, the profiles of these annular bubbles are obtained by theoretical derivation. Numerical procedures based on the theoretical expressions are developed and the bubble profiles can be predicted in few seconds. The evolutions of the movement and shape of small bubbles are also explored experimentally and numerically. Under the constraint of minimum free surface energy, several small spherical bubbles will merge into a bigger spherical bubble, which are driven by small disturbances and their initial velocities, and the bigger bubble will locate in the middle region of the tank model at equilibrium. When the volume of the bubble keeps increasing, the surface of the bubble will become the specific Delaunay interface, whose the mean curvature is constant, under the constraints of the propellant management device and the tank wall. |
| DOI | 10.1063/5.0180681 |
| Indexed By | SCI ; EI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:001207456400019 |
| WOS Keyword | ASYMMETRIC CAPILLARY BRIDGES ; LIQUID BRIDGES ; DROPS ; PROFILES ; VOLUME |
| WOS Research Area | Mechanics ; Physics |
| WOS Subject | Mechanics ; Physics, Fluids & Plasmas |
| Funding Project | China Manned Space Engineering Program (Fluid Physics Experimental Rack and the Priority Research Program of Space Station) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[12032020] |
| Funding Organization | China Manned Space Engineering Program (Fluid Physics Experimental Rack and the Priority Research Program of Space Station) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| Classification | 一类/力学重要期刊 |
| Ranking | 1 |
| Contributor | Kang, Qi |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/95053 |
| Collection | 微重力重点实验室 |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mech, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Engn & Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China; 3.BeiJing HQJY R&T Co Ltd, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China; 4.Yantai Yuzhe Elect Technol Co Ltd, Yantai 264005, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Chen ST,Hu L,Chen SY,et al. Study on the shape and motion of bubbles in the tank model with a central column aboard the Chinese Space Station[J]. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS,2024,36,1,:14.Rp_Au:Kang, Qi |
| APA | 陈上通.,胡良.,陈舒扬.,张璞.,陈一.,...&康琦.(2024).Study on the shape and motion of bubbles in the tank model with a central column aboard the Chinese Space Station.PHYSICS OF FLUIDS,36(1),14. |
| MLA | 陈上通,et al."Study on the shape and motion of bubbles in the tank model with a central column aboard the Chinese Space Station".PHYSICS OF FLUIDS 36.1(2024):14. |
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