Studies of flow induced on a water surface due to the impingement of a drop or a water source

Naga Musunuri, Islam Benouaguef, Edison Amah, Denis Blackmore, Ian S. Fischer, Pushpendra Singh

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Abstract

The particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique is used to study the flow induced on the surface of a salt waterbody when a drop impinges on the surface or when a source is present on the surface. The measurements show that the impingement of a fresh water drop causes a strong axisymmetric solutocapillary flow about the vertical line passing through the center of impact. The fluid directly below the center of impact rises upward, and near the surface, it moves away from the center of impact. The flow, which develops within a fraction of second after the impact, persists for several seconds. Similarly, when a fresh water source is present on a salt waterbody there is a solutocapillary flow which on the surface is away from the source and below the surface is towards the source. The solutocapillary flow is quasi-steady when the volume flow rate from the source is small in the sense that the salt concentration in the waterbody changes slowly.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSymposia
Subtitle of host publicationFluid Measurement and Instrumentation; Fluid Dynamics of Wind Energy; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion; Energy and Process Engineering; Microfluidics and Nanofluidics; Development and Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics; DNS/LES and Hybrid RANS/LES Methods
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791858059
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
EventASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2017 - Waikoloa, United States
Duration: Jul 30 2017Aug 3 2017

Publication series

NameAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM
Volume1B-2017
ISSN (Print)0888-8116

Other

OtherASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa
Period7/30/178/3/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mechanical Engineering

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