Bubble behavior in a Taylor vortex

Bubble behavior in a Taylor vortex.

We present a study on the behavior of air bubbles captured in a Taylor vortex formed in the annulus between two concentric cylinders. It is found that small bubbles stay either at certain locations near the vortex cores or in the outflow regions along the inner cylinder. If bubbles of the same size are introduced, a variety of bubble structures (such as ring, chain, cluster, etc.) appear due to...

Note Pointed Taylor Bubble Revisited

The Fastest Smooth Taylor Bubble

The complicated nature of singularities associated with topological transition in the plane Taylorbubble problem is briefly discussed in the context of estimating the speed of the fastest smooth Taylorbubble in the absence of surface tension. Previous numerical studies were able to show the presence of a stagnation point at the tip of the bubbles for dimensionless speed F < 0.357 but were incom...

Wave speeds in wavy Taylor-vortex flow

The speed of travelling azimuthal waves on Taylor vortices in a circular Couette system (with the inner cylinder rotating and the outer cylinder at rest) has been determined in laboratory experiments conducted as a function of Reynolds number R, radius ratio of the cylinders 7, average axial wavelength h , number of waves m, and the aspect ratio r (the ratio of the fluid height to the gap betwe...

Combining spherical-cap and Taylor bubble fluid

Basaltic activity is the most common class of volcanism on Earth, characterized by magmas 12 of sufficiently low viscosities such that bubbles can move independently of the melt. Following 13 exsolution, spherical bubbles can then expand and/or coalesce to generate larger bubbles of 14 spherical-cap or Taylor bubble (slug) morphologies. Puffing and strombolian explosive activity are 15 driven b...