Journal
PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2022.104478
Keywords
CFD; VOF method; Coupling model; Bubble dynamics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- [51676087]
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This study summarizes recent developments of the VOF method and discusses coupling strategies with other specific methods. A comprehensive explanation of bubble behaviors is provided, while applications of the VOF method in describing various bubble characteristics are reviewed.
The bubbly flow is encountered in many industrial processes. Numerical efforts dedicated to the explanation of the bubbly flow physics have never been overemphasized. Based on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique, the volume of fluid (VOF) method has been adopted to predict flow phenomena in nuclear reactors. For the VOF method, a volume fraction transport equation is solved simultaneously with a set of continuity and momentum equations throughout the computational domain. The VOF method is relatively reliable but could produce inaccurate interface curvatures due to the shortage of the volume fraction step function in smoothening discontinuous quantities near the interface. In view of this, the present study summarizes recent development of the VOF method. The strategies coupling the VOF method and other specific methods are discussed. A comprehensive explanation of numerically obtained bubble behaviors such as detachment, rising, deformation, and coalescence is provided. Applications of the VOF method in describing various bubble characteristics are reviewed. Available data shows that simulations of bubble dynamics and interfacial behaviors still call for irrefutable clarifications. Furthermore, this study serves as a benchmark resource for selecting an appropriate VOF method in related research.
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