Numerical Study on Weakly Nonlinear Evolution of Pressure Waves in Water Flows Containing Many Translational Bubbles Acting a Drag Force

Abstract

Weakly nonlinear (i.e., finite but small amplitude) propagation of plane progressive pressure waves in compressible water flow uniformly containing many spherical gas bubbles is numerically investigated with a special attention to a drag force acting bubbles and translation of bubbles. The gas and liquid phases are flowing with initially independent velocities. Drag force and virtual mass force are introduced as interfacial momentum transports. Translation and spherically symmetric oscillations are considered as bubble dynamics. In this paper, under these assumptions, we numerically solve the KdVB (Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers) equation previously derived by ourselves (Yatabe et al., Phys. Fluids, 33 (2021), 033315) from basic equations based on a two-fluid model. The main results are summarized as follows: (i) The drag force acting on bubbles increases a dissipation effect of waves and drastically changes the phase and amplitude of waves. (ii) Although the translation of bubbles increases the nonlinear effect of waves, its contribution to waveform is quantitatively small. (iii) The effect of the drag force decreases with decreasing the initial void fraction and with increasing the initial bubble radius. That of the translation decreases with decreasing the initial void fraction, and is almost independent of the initial bubble radius. (iv) The spatiotemporal evolution of two type of dissipation effects (i.e., dissipation terms) due to the acoustic radiation and to the drag force is different tendency.