Models for disperse gas-liquid systems are implemented in the polydisperseBubbleFoam solver, which implements the algorithm discussed in the article of Heylmun et al. (2019) [J.C. Heylmun, B. Kong, A. Passalacqua, R.O. Fox, A quadrature-based moment method for polydisperse bubbly flows, Computer Physics Communications. (2019). doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2019.06.005].
Tutorials demonstrating polydisperseBubbleFoam
- The angledMixer tutorial demonstrates the case setup for polydisperseBubbleFoam.
Validation cases
The following validation cases are available for polydisperseBubbleFoam:
- DelftPolydisperse: Bubble column case based on the experimental work of W. Harteveld Bubble Columns: Structure or Stability?, Ph.D. Thesis, Technische Universiteit Delft (2005).
- Diaz: Five test cases based on the work on bubble columns of M.E. Díaz, F.J. Montes, M.A. Galán, Experimental study of the transition between unsteady flow regimes in a partially aerated two-dimensional bubble column, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification. 47 (2008) 1867–1876. doi:10.1016/j.cep.2007.10.012.
- Pfleger: Four test cases based on the work on a rectangular bubble column discussed in D. Pfleger, S. Gomes, N. Gilbert, H.-G. Wagner, Hydrodynamic simulations of laboratory scale bubble columns fundamental studies of the Eulerian-Eulerian modelling approach, Chemical Engineering Science. 54 (1999) 5091–5099. DOI:10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00261-4.
- shockTube: A set of four test cases to verify the behavior of the method when the spatial discretization is refined.