A Model for the Fate of a Gas Bubble Interacting with a Wire Mesh

In the concept of a microstructured bubble column reactor, microstructuring catalyst carrier is realized by introducing static mesh thin wires coated with inside column. Meanwhile, also serve purpose cutting bubbles, which in turn results high interfacial area and enhanced interface hydrodynamics. However, there are no models that can predict fate bubbles (cut/stuck) passing through these wires, thus making reactor optimization difficult. this work, based on several typical bubble–wire interacting configurations, we analyze outcomes applying energy balance focusing buoyancy surface tension. Two limiting cases viscosity, corresponding to ability reconfigure into lowest state, investigated. Upon analysis, it observed narrow spacing smaller Eötvös number generally result getting stuck underneath wire. We have obtained threshold grid critical for passage cutting, verified direct numerical simulation single opening. The derived generalized large meshes multiple openings different configurations. Finally, closure model energy-balance analysis proposed Euler–Lagrange simulations columns.