A review of VOF methods for simulating bubble dynamics

C Mulbah, C Kang, N Mao, W Zhang, AR Shaikh… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
The bubbly flow is encountered in many industrial processes. Numerical efforts dedicated to
the explanation of the bubbly flow physics have never been overemphasized. Based on the …

Bubble dynamics and its applications

SP Wang, AM Zhang, YL Liu, S Zhang, P Cui - Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2018 - Springer
Bubbles have very important applications in many fields such as shipbuilding engineering,
ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, chemical …

Surfactant effects on bubble motion and bubbly flows

S Takagi, Y Matsumoto - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Small amounts of surfactant can drastically change bubble behavior. For example, a bubble
in aqueous surfactant solution rises much slower than one in purified water. This …

Photo-bioreactor design for microalgae: a review from the aspect of CO2 transfer and conversion

J Fu, Y Huang, Q Liao, A Xia, Q Fu, X Zhu - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Photobioreactor (PBR) is the most critical equipment for microalgal photosynthetic fixation of
CO 2. It provides suitable environmental conditions, such as CO 2, light and nutrients, for …

Mechanisms and modeling of bubble dynamic behaviors and mass transfer under gravity: a review

S Yan, X Wang, L Zhu, X Zhang, Z Luo - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Bubbly flow is a prototypical two-phase flow problem. The dynamic behavior of bubbles
within a reactor is intrinsically linked to their transport, distribution, and mass transfer, all of …

Numerical investigation on coalescence of bubble pairs rising in a stagnant liquid

RH Chen, WX Tian, GH Su, SZ Qiu, Y Ishiwatari… - Chemical Engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
In the present study, we preformed a two-dimensional numerical simulation of the motion
and coalescence of bubble pairs rising in the stationary liquid pool, using the moving …

Bubble coalescence: Effect of bubble approach velocity and liquid viscosity

S Orvalho, MC Ruzicka, G Olivieri… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
The goal of this study is to present new experimental data on the effect of the bubble
approach velocity and liquid viscosity on pairwise bubble coalescence. Measurements were …

Numerical simulation of the motion and interaction of bubble pair rising in a quiescent liquid

A Ghanavati, S Khodadadi, MH Taleghani… - Applied Ocean …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, the motion and interaction of a bubble pair rising in a stationary liquid
are simulated in two dimensions using the volume of fluid method (VOF) in the open-source …

Inhibition of bubble coalescence: Effects of salt concentration and speed of approach

LA Del Castillo, S Ohnishi, RG Horn - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2011 - Elsevier
Bubble coalescence experiments have been performed using a sliding bubble apparatus, in
which mm-sized bubbles in an aqueous electrolyte solution without added surfactant rose …

Level-set simulations of buoyancy-driven motion of single and multiple bubbles

N Balcázar, O Lehmkuhl, L Jofre, A Oliva - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical study of buoyancy-driven motion of single and multiple
bubbles by means of the conservative level-set method. First, an extensive study of the …