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Published on: April 30, 2018
Experimental investigation on bubble coalescence under nonuniform temperature distribution in reduced gravity
1National Microgravity Laboratory/CAS, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China. kq@imech.ac.cn <kq@imech.ac.cn>
Abstract:
Results on bubble coalescences from the space experiment of thermocapillary bubble migration conducted on board the Chinese 22nd recoverable satellite are presented in this paper. Some coalescences of large spherical bubbles under microgravity are observed through bubbles staying at the upper side of the test cell. The data of bubble coalescence time are recorded and compared with theoretical predictions, which is based on a theory to describe the tendency of coalescence connected to chemical potential difference. It is implied that the theory is applicable for the experimental data of bubble coalescence. Moreover, the angle between the line of two bubble centers and temperature gradient falled mostly in the range 20 degrees -40 degrees .
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