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Steady shear viscosity of semi-dilute bubbly suspensions

Xavier Chateau
Guillaume Ovarlez
Laurent Tocquer

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The steady shear viscosity of bubbly suspensions is known to depend upon the suspending fluid viscosity, the bubble volume fraction and a dimensionless number (the capillary number) accounting for the deformability of the bubbles under a viscous stress. However, experimental data on bubbly suspensions in the literature are scarce and present two main shortcomings: (i) the studied systems are polydisperse, which leads to arbitrariness in the definition of a capillary number, and (ii) there is a lack of data for capillary numbers of order unity, where bubbles are slightly deformable. This leads to the absence of clear conclusion on the relevance of the existing theoretical models. In order to make significant progress, an original device is designed to produce monodisperse suspensions of bubbles in a highly viscous Newtonian fluid. The steady shear viscosity of the bubbly suspensions is measured in the dilute and semi-dilute concentration regimes (volume fraction of bubbles between 2% and 18%) using a Couette geometry with a 20-bubbles-wide gap, for capillary numbers ranging between 0.01 and 10. The new obtained data are shown to be much more accurate than data previously reported in the literature. Experimental data are in very good agreement with the model of Frankel and Acrivos (1970), originally developed for dilute suspensions, in the whole range of studied volume fractions.
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hal-01982888 , version 1 (17-01-2019)

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Romain Morini, Xavier Chateau, Guillaume Ovarlez, Olivier Pitois, Laurent Tocquer. Steady shear viscosity of semi-dilute bubbly suspensions. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2019, 264, pp.19-24. ⟨10.1016/j.jnnfm.2018.12.006⟩. ⟨hal-01982888⟩
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