Turbulent drag reduction in nonionic surfactant solutions
Turbulent drag reduction in nonionic surfactant solutions
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DOI:
10.1063/1.3407666
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发表时间:
2010-05
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Shinji Tamano;M. Itoh;Katsuo Kato;K. Yokota
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作者:
Shinji Tamano;M. Itoh;Katsuo Kato;K. Yokota
There are only a few studies on the drag-reducing effect of nonionic surfactant solutions which are nontoxic and biodegradable, while many investigations of cationic surfactant solutions have been performed so far. First, the drag-reducing effects of a nonionic surfactant (AROMOX), which mainly consisted of oleyldimethylamineoxide, was investigated by measuring the pressure drop in the pipe flow at solvent Reynolds numbers Re between 1000 and 60 000. Second, we investigated the drag-reducing effect of a nonionic surfactant on the turbulent boundary layer at momentum-thickness Reynolds numbers Reθ from 443 to 814 using two-component laser-Doppler velocimetry and particle image velocimetry systems. At the temperature of nonionic surfactant solutions, T=25 °C, the maximum drag reduction ratio for AROMOX 500 ppm was about 50%, in the boundary layer flow, although the drag reduction ratio was larger than 60% in pipe flow. Turbulence statistics and structures for AROMOX 500 ppm showed the behavior of typical dr...