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 …

A review of domain decomposition methods for simulation of fluid flows: concepts, algorithms, and applications

HS Tang, RD Haynes, G Houzeaux - Archives of Computational Methods …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Domain decomposition (DD) is a powerful approach to numerically solve partial
differential equations, and it has become popular and indispensable in simulations of fluid …

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 …

Breakage, coalescence and size distribution of surfactant-laden droplets in turbulent flow

G Soligo, A Roccon, A Soldati - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
In this work, we compute numerically breakage/coalescence rates and size distribution of
surfactant-laden droplets in turbulent flow. We use direct numerical simulation of turbulence …

Coalescence of surfactant-laden drops by phase field method

G Soligo, A Roccon, A Soldati - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose and test the validity of a modified Phase Field Method (PFM), which
is specifically developed for large scale simulations of turbulent flows with large and …

A front tracking method for direct numerical simulation of evaporation process in a multiphase system

M Irfan, M Muradoglu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
A front-tracking method is developed for the direct numerical simulation of evaporation
process in a liquid–gas multiphase system. One-field formulation is used to solve the flow …

[HTML][HTML] On the dispersion dynamics of liquid–liquid surfactant-laden flows in a SMX static mixer

JP Valdes, L Kahouadji, F Liang, S Shin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to elucidate, for the first time, the intricate fundamental physics governing the
dispersion dynamics of a surfactant-laden two-phase liquid–liquid system in the well-known …

Bubble drag reduction requires large bubbles

RA Verschoof, RCA Van Der Veen, C Sun, D Lohse - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
In the maritime industry, the injection of air bubbles into the turbulent boundary layer under
the ship hull is seen as one of the most promising techniques to reduce the overall fuel …

Experimental study of the effect of the surfactant on the single bubble rising in stagnant surfactant solutions and a mathematical model for the bubble motion

Y Luo, Z Wang, B Zhang, K Guo, L Zheng… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bubble behavior has a significant effect on the gas–liquid mass transfer in bubbly flows. In
this study, the bubble rising velocity and bubble shape in ultrapure water and surfactant …

Coupled volume of fluid and phase field method for direct numerical simulation of insoluble surfactant-laden interfacial flows and application to rising bubbles

PK Farsoiya, S Popinet, HA Stone, L Deike - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Improved numerical methods are needed to understand the effect of surfactants in interfacial
fluid mechanics, with various applications including thin films, inkjet printing, and ocean …