Using a Dynamic and Constant Mesh in Numerical Simulation of the Free-Rising Bubble

Abstract

A two-phase bubbly flow is often found in the process industry. For the efficient operation of such devices, it is important to know the details of the flow. The paper presents a numerical simulation of the rising bubble in a stagnant liquid column. The interFOAM solver from the open source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) toolbox OpenFOAM was used to obtain the necessary data. The constant and dynamic computational grids were used in the numerical simulation. The results of the calculation were compared with the measured values. As expected, by using the dynamic mesh, the bubble trajectory was closer to the experimental results due to the more detailed description of the gas⁻liquid interface.

Keywords

• two-phase flow
• free-rising bubble
• CFD
• volume of fluid (VOF)
• constant and dynamic mesh