Deformation and breakup of bubbles and drops in turbulence

R Ni - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Fragmentation of bubbles and droplets in turbulence produces a dispersed phase spanning
a broad range of scales, encompassing everything from droplets in nanoemulsions to …

A literature review of theoretical models for drop and bubble breakup in turbulent dispersions

Y Liao, D Lucas - Chemical Engineering Science, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper presents a literature review on mechanisms and models for the breakage of
bubbles and drops (fluid particles) in turbulent dispersions. For the mechanisms, four …

Sub-Hinze scale bubble production in turbulent bubble break-up

A Riviere, W Mostert, S Perrard, L Deike - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We study bubble break-up in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence by direct numerical
simulations of the two-phase incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. We create the …

Baseline closure model for dispersed bubbly flow: Bubble coalescence and breakup

Y Liao, R Rzehak, D Lucas, E Krepper - Chemical Engineering Science, 2015 - Elsevier
A set of closures for two-fluid modelling of adiabatic bubbly flows has been defined as
baseline model, which provides a common basis for further improvement and development …

Multiscale multiphase phenomena in bubble column reactors: A review

S Shu, D Vidal, F Bertrand, J Chaouki - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a state-of-the-art review focusing on the current understanding of the
multiscale multiphase phenomena inside Bubble Column Reactors (BCRs). Although many …

Key technologies and development trends of the soft abrasive flow finishing method

Y Tan, Y Ni, W Xu, Y Xie, L Li, D Tan - Journal of Zhejiang University …, 2023 - Springer
This paper reviews recent developments of the soft abrasive flow finishing (SAF) method in
constraint space. The multiphase fluid dynamics modeling, material removal mechanism …

Modeling of bubble column reactors: progress and limitations

HA Jakobsen, H Lindborg… - Industrial & engineering …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Bubble columns are widely used for carrying out gas− liquid and gas− liquid− solid reactions
in a variety of industrial applications. The dispersion and interfacial heat-and mass-transfer …

Slurry reactors for gas-to-liquid processes: a review

T Wang, J Wang, Y Jin - Industrial & Engineering chemistry …, 2007 - ACS Publications
With the dramatic increase in the international oil price, gas-to-liquid processes of Fischer−
Tropsch (FT) synthesis, methanol synthesis, and dimethyl ether (DME) synthesis have …

Population balance model for gas− liquid flows: Influence of bubble coalescence and breakup models

T Wang, J Wang, Y Jin - Industrial & engineering chemistry …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In dispersed gas− liquid flows, the bubble size distribution plays an important role in the
phase structure and the interphase forces, which, in turn, determine the multiphase …

A CFD–PBM coupled model for gas–liquid flows

T Wang, J Wang, Y Jin - AIChE Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A computational fluid dynamics–population balance model (CFD‐PBM) coupled model was
developed that combines the advantages of CFD to calculate the entire flow field and of the …