Abstract
AbstractAn experimental and theoretical study is presented of the time dependence of air pressure in a bubbler tube used to measure the liquid level in a tank. The observed time dependence of the air pressure is a superposition of two components. The first component is a repeated slow rise and sudden fall in the air pressure that is associated with bubble growth and breakoff. It is the sudden breakoff that generates the second component consisting of damped oscillations associated with sound waves in the air interacting with an oscillating flow of the liquid. The air pressure during bubble growth is described theoretically. This result is combined with the gas law to predict the functional form of the slow pressure rise; this prediction agrees with experiment. An equation for the oscillation frequencies is derived, solved, and compared with experiment; agreement is within the measurement accuracy of 5%.
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