Abstract
It has been reported in recent experimental and numerical studies that the forced gas-liquid displacement in a partially wettable capillary tube can give rise to entrainment of a liquid film and generation of Taylor bubbles at a large displacement rate. However, simulations and hydrodynamic theory of Gao et al. (J. Fluid Mech., 2019, vol 859: 308–320) predicted an abrupt drop of the contact line velocity Cacl at the onset of wetting transition, which conflicted with the experiments of Zhao et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018, vol 120: 084501), who suggested a continuous variation of Cacl. To resolve this discrepancy, we performed experiments of gas-liquid displacement, focusing on the contact line velocity close to the threshold. It is found that Cacl is indeed discontinuous, confirming the validity of the hydrodynamic description of the moving contact line. After an abrupt drop, Cacl increases to a constant for a slight raise of the displacement rate. The failure of detecting this discontinuity in previous experiments is due to the low resolution of the displacement rate. The propagating velocity and the length of the generated bubbles are presented and agree well with the existing theory. Variation of the liquid slug length with the displacement rate is also presented.
摘要
近期关于气液驱替的实验和数值研究表明, 在不完全浸润和大驱替速度条件下可在毛细管壁面上产生液膜并最终演化为泰 勒气泡. 基于数值模拟和流体动力学理论, Gao等证明接触线速度Cacl在这种润湿状态转换的临界条件附近会出现突降. 这种突降 在Zhao等的实验中并未被发现, 因此他们认为Cacl是连续变化的. 为了解决这种矛盾, 我们重新开展了毛细管中的气液驱替实验, 重点 关注临界条件附近的接触线速度变化. 我们发现Cacl确实具有不连续性, 证实了采用流体动力学理论描述移动接触线的有效性. 在突降 发生后, Cacl会随着驱替速度的增加迅速上升到一个常值. 在前人实验中, 由于驱替速度的分辨率较低, 未能检测到这种不连续性. 我们 给出了气泡运动速度和长度的变化规律, 发现与现有理论非常吻合. 此外, 还研究了气泡间的液塞长度随驱替速度的变化.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11972340, 11672287, 11932019, and 11621202), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB22040103), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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Wu, CE., Qin, J. & Gao, P. Experiment on gas-liquid displacement in a capillary. Acta Mech. Sin. 38, 321386 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09021-x
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