Small-scale phenomena in reactive bubbly flows: Experiments, numerical modeling, and applications

M Schlüter, S Herres-Pawlis, U Nieken… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Improving the yield and selectivity of chemical reactions is one of the challenging tasks in
paving the way for a more sustainable and climate-friendly economy. For the industrially …

Models for the numerical simulation of bubble columns: A review

A Mühlbauer, MW Hlawitschka… - Chemie Ingenieur …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This work reviews the state‐of‐the‐art models for the simulation of bubble columns and
focuses on methods coupled with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) where the potential …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

A computational model for interfacial heat and mass transfer in two-phase flows using a phase field method

S Mirjalili, SS Jain, A Mani - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two-phase flows involving heat/mass transfer are widespread in industrial and
environmental applications such as chemical reactors, bubbly flows, combustion, boiling …

A unified single-field Volume-of-Fluid-based formulation for multi-component interfacial transfer with local volume changes

J Maes, C Soulaine - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel unified single-field formulation for Volume-Of-Fluid simulation of
interfacial mass transfer with local volume changes. By comparison with the previous …

[HTML][HTML] Load balanced 2D and 3D adaptive mesh refinement in OpenFOAM

D Rettenmaier, D Deising, Y Ouedraogo, E Gjonaj… - SoftwareX, 2019 - Elsevier
An object-oriented approach to load-balanced adaptive mesh refinement in two and three
dimensions is presented for OpenFOAM, a mature C++ library for computational fluid …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of transient capillary rise using direct numerical simulations

D Gründing, M Smuda, T Antritter, M Fricke… - Applied Mathematical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The rise of liquid in capillaries, or between two parallel plates as the 2D variant thereof,
represents a challenging test case for two-phase flow solvers without a full analytic solution …

Investigation on interphase mass transfer coefficient of a deformable bubble with density contrast using phase-field lattice Boltzmann method

Z Tan, H Yan, R Huang, Q Li, L Liu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The gas–liquid mass transfer process with density contrast is modeled in this paper using a
phase-field Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. In this method, the phase-field model used to …

Bubble-mediated transfer of dilute gas in turbulence

PK Farsoiya, S Popinet, L Deike - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Bubble-mediated gas exchange in turbulent flow is critical in bubble column chemical
reactors as well as for ocean–atmosphere gas exchange related to air entrained by breaking …

Interactions between electrogenerated bubbles and microfluidic phenomena

F Struyven, M Sellier, P Mandin - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Bubbles produced during electrolysis are the result of multiple processes, including
interfacial mass transfer, chemical reactions, species transport around the bubble …