Simulation of buoyant bubble motion in viscous flows employing lattice Boltzmann and level set methods

Scientia Iranica

Volumn 18, Issue 2 B, 2011, Pages 231-240

  Mehravaran, M ^a   Hannani, S Kazemzadeh ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bubble dynamics; Lattice Boltzmann method; Level set method; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; KINETIC THEORY; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

BUBBLE DYNAMICS; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; TWO-PHASE FLUID FLOW;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 80052850906     PISSN: 10263098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scient.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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