Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow

Recently, micro bubbles injection has emerged as a promising drag reduction device in ships due to their significant reduction in frictional drag, cost-effectiveness, environmental-friendly and easy to implement in an existing ship. Frictional drag reduces up to 80% by injecting micro bubbles to the...

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Main Author: Erny Afiza, Alias
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Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling ump-120952016-03-22T06:58:53Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12095/ Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow Erny Afiza, Alias TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Recently, micro bubbles injection has emerged as a promising drag reduction device in ships due to their significant reduction in frictional drag, cost-effectiveness, environmental-friendly and easy to implement in an existing ship. Frictional drag reduces up to 80% by injecting micro bubbles to the boundary layer. However, the mechanism of drag reduction by micro bubbles is complicated and poorly understood. Therefore, this study is sought to clarify the mechanism of drag reduction by micro bubbles in the most basic flow condition as the mechanism remains unknown. Several controllable factors associated with the efficiency of micro bubbles in drag reduction were investigated to identify the optimum condition for skin friction reduction by micro bubbles. As the results, a higher reduction rate was obtained with larger distribution area of attached micro bubbles at the tube wall in smaller Reynolds number. Moreover, the distribution area and size of micro bubbles at the tube wall increase with time and contributed a great effect in pipe friction loss. Furthermore, void fraction contribute a significant effect in micro bubbles efficiency. Flow, pattern and the bubble's behavior were observed by flow visualization. The ideal bubble size and distribution were evaluated by the measurement of skin friction. Based on the tube's visualization, the wall shear stress in the upper half of the tube decreased as -the bubbles were injected into the boundary layer. 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12095/1/ERNY%20AFIZA%20ALIAS.PDF Erny Afiza, Alias (2012) Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow. Masters thesis, Tokai University. http://iportal.ump.edu.my/lib/item?id=chamo:91547&theme=UMP2
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Erny Afiza, Alias
Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
description Recently, micro bubbles injection has emerged as a promising drag reduction device in ships due to their significant reduction in frictional drag, cost-effectiveness, environmental-friendly and easy to implement in an existing ship. Frictional drag reduces up to 80% by injecting micro bubbles to the boundary layer. However, the mechanism of drag reduction by micro bubbles is complicated and poorly understood. Therefore, this study is sought to clarify the mechanism of drag reduction by micro bubbles in the most basic flow condition as the mechanism remains unknown. Several controllable factors associated with the efficiency of micro bubbles in drag reduction were investigated to identify the optimum condition for skin friction reduction by micro bubbles. As the results, a higher reduction rate was obtained with larger distribution area of attached micro bubbles at the tube wall in smaller Reynolds number. Moreover, the distribution area and size of micro bubbles at the tube wall increase with time and contributed a great effect in pipe friction loss. Furthermore, void fraction contribute a significant effect in micro bubbles efficiency. Flow, pattern and the bubble's behavior were observed by flow visualization. The ideal bubble size and distribution were evaluated by the measurement of skin friction. Based on the tube's visualization, the wall shear stress in the upper half of the tube decreased as -the bubbles were injected into the boundary layer.
format Thesis
author Erny Afiza, Alias
author_facet Erny Afiza, Alias
author_sort Erny Afiza, Alias
title Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
title_short Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
title_full Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
title_fullStr Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
title_full_unstemmed Skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
title_sort skin friction reduction by micro bubbles in pipe flow
publishDate 2012
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12095/
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