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Numerical study of spike characteristics due to the motions of a non-spherical rebounding bubble

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The boundary integral method (BIM) is used to simulate the 3-D gas bubble, generated within the two bubble pulsation periods in proximity to a free surface in an inviscid, incompressible and irrotational flow. The present method is well validated by comparing the calculated shapes of the bubble and the free surface with both the experimental results and the numerical ones obtained by the Axisymmetric BIM code. The expansion, the collapse of the gas bubble and the further evolution of the rebounding non-spherical bubble are simulated. The various variation patterns of the free surface spike and the bubble centroid for different standoff distances, the buoyancy parameters and the strength parameters are obtained to reveal the nonlinear interaction between the bubble and the free surface. The amplitude of the second maximum bubble volume and the four typical patterns of the bubble jet and the free surface spike are examined in the context of the standoff distance. The large buoyancy is used to elevate the spray dome rather than the free surface spike.

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  1. Faculty of Vehicle Engineering and Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116023, China

    Jia-xia Wang  (王加夏), Zhi Zong  (宗智) & Lei Sun  (孙雷)

  2. Marine Design and Research Institute of China, Shanghai, 200011, China

    Zhang-rui Li  (李章锐)

  3. Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116023, China

    Ming-zuo Jiang  (姜明佐)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51221961, 51279030) the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program, Grant Nos. 2013CB036101, 2010CB832704) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. L2012016).

Biography: Jia-xia WANG (1988-), Male, Ph. D. Candidate

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Wang, Jx., Zong, Z., Sun, L. et al. Numerical study of spike characteristics due to the motions of a non-spherical rebounding bubble. J Hydrodyn 28, 52–65 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(16)60607-8

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