Turbulent flows with drops and bubbles: What numerical simulations can tell us—Freeman scholar lecture

G Soligo, A Roccon, A Soldati - Journal of Fluids …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Turbulent flows laden withlarge, deformable drops or bubbles are ubiquitous in nature and a
number of industrial processes. These flows are characterized by physics acting at many …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of droplet coalescence on drag in turbulent channel flows

I Cannon, D Izbassarov, O Tammisola, L Brandt… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study the effect of droplet coalescence on turbulent wall-bounded flows by means of
direct numerical simulations. In particular, the volume-of-fluid and front-tracking methods are …

Dynamics and interactions of parallel bubbles rising in a viscoelastic fluid under buoyancy

HU Naseer, Z Ahmed, D Izbassarov… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Three dimensional interface-resolved numerical simulations are performed to investigate
interactions of two buoyancy-driven parallel bubbles rising in an otherwise quiescent …

On a vertical chain of small bubbles ascending in a viscoelastic fluid

W Yuan, M Zhang, BC Khoo, N Phan-Thien - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, our direct numerical simulations [Yuan et al.,“Hydrodynamic interaction and
coalescence of two inline bubbles rising in a viscoelastic liquid,” Phys. Fluids 33, 083102 …

QEEFoam: A Quasi-Eulerian-Eulerian model for polydisperse turbulent gas-liquid flows. Implementation in OpenFOAM, verification and validation

D Li, Y Wei, D Marchisio - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a new multiphase computational model for polydisperse turbulent
gas-liquid flows. In this model the gas phase is transported by a single convection equation …

Numerical simulations of bubbly flows in a vertical periodic channel

R Gao, C Liu, Y Hu, C Hu - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, numerical simulations of bubbly flows in an infinitely long vertical channel were
performed. Generally, the upper and lower boundaries of such channels are simplified as …

Lateral migration of a deformable fluid particle in a square channel flow of viscoelastic fluid

HU Naseer, D Izbassarov, Z Ahmed… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Cross-stream migration of a deformable fluid particle is investigated computationally in a
pressure-driven channel flow of a viscoelastic fluid via interface-resolved simulations. Flow …

A FFT-accelerated multi-block finite-difference solver for massively parallel simulations of incompressible flows

P Costa - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a multi-block finite-difference solver for massively parallel Direct Numerical
Simulations (DNS) of incompressible flows. The algorithm combines the versatility of a multi …

Morphology of clean and surfactant-laden droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

I Cannon, G Soligo, ME Rosti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We perform direct numerical simulations of surfactant-laden droplets in homogeneous
isotropic turbulence with Taylor Reynolds number is the droplet characteristic size. We …

A Momentum Balance Correction to the Non-Conservative One-Fluid Formulation in Boiling Flows using Volume-of-Fluid

J Poblador-Ibanez, N Valle, BJ Boersma - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
A proven methodology to solve multiphase flows is based on the one-fluid formulation of the
governing equations, which treats the phase transition across the interface as a single fluid …