Microbubble and air film methods are believed to be applicable to skin friction reduction in ships. Small bubbles are dispersed into the turbulent boundary layer in the former case, and wide air layers cover the wall surface in the latter case. Previous studies did not specifically address the intermediate case between the microbubble and air film conditions. This study is concerned with the possibility and mechanism of drag reduction using relatively large air bubbles compared to the boundary layer thickness in a horizontal turbulent channel flow. The relationship between local skin friction and the bubble's interfacial structure is investigated by synchronizing the measurement of wall-shear stress with the image acquisition of bubbles. The bubble sizes range from 2 to 90mm approximately. As a result, a negative correlation between the local skin friction and the local void fraction is confirmed by the time-resolved measurement. A new observation is the fact that the local skin friction decreases drastically in the rear part of individual large bubbles, and rapidly increases after the bubble's rear interface passes. This characteristic underlies the bubble-size dependency of the average skin friction in the intermediate bubble size condition.


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    Title :

    Skin friction reduction by large air bubbles in a horizontal channel flow


    Contributors:
    Murai, Y. (author) / Fukuda, H. (author) / Oishi, Y. (author) / Kodama, Y. (author) / Yamamoto, F. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    17 Seiten, 21 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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