The overall objective of our work is to understand bubble growth and rise in natural marine sediments. In the first phase of our study (to mid-2003) we demonstrated that bubbles grow and rise in sediments by the mechanism of fracture. The second (current) phase has aimed to develop methods to measure the mechanical parameters that control the fracture of soft sediment; these parameters, i.e., Y...

We review current theory, simulation and experiment for the growth of 3D bubbles in ideal dry froth. Theories assume either that the growth rate depends on bubble radius or topology. Radius based laws violate the Young-Laplace law. Topological theories can be either linear or non-linear in the number of faces (f). The growth law can hold either exactly for each bubble (as in 2D) or apply only t...

Abstract The bubble–bubble interaction and bubble–needle are usually caused by liquid flow in the needle or needle’s neighborhood. Moreover, nonlinear changes liquid’s velocity pressure can lead to chaotic bubble departures. In present paper, neighborhood were experimentally numerically investigated. experiment, bubbles generated from a brass into distilled water. A second was placed at distanc...

This paper evaluates the solution effects of different Rayleigh-Plesset models (R-P) for simulating the growth/collapse dynamics and thermal behaviour of homogeneous gas bubbles. The flow inputs used for the discrete cavitation bubble calculations are obtained from Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations (RANS), performed in high-pressure nozzle holes. Parametric 1-D results are presented f...

The growth of the two-dimensional single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at low Atwood number (A=0.04) is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations. The main result of the paper is that, at long times and sufficiently high Reynolds numbers, the bubble acceleration becomes stationary, indicating mean quadratic growth. This is contrary to the general belief that single-mode Rayleigh-...

This paper presents a complete set of coupled equations that govern the bubble transport in three-dimensional gravity-driven flow. The model accounts for bubble growth or shrinkage due to pressure and temperature changes as well as for multiple gas diffusion in and out of the bubbles but neglects bubble coalescence, break-up, and nucleation. The model applies to glass melting furnaces but it co...

A ternary inhibitory system contains two terms in its free energy: the interface energy that favors micro-domain growth and the longer ranging confinement energy that prevents unlimited spreading. In a parameter regime where two constituents are small in size compared to the third constituent and the longer ranging energy does not dominate, there is a double-bubble-like stable stationary point ...

Experiments studying the compression and unstable growth of an argon bubble in a nitrogen environment, subjected to planar shock wave (1.32 ≤ M < 4) are performed in a vertical shock tube of square internal cross section. In parallel with laboratory experiments, a computational investigation is carried out with the multi-fluid compressible hydrodynamics code raptor, using adaptive mesh refineme...

An inhibitory ternary system contains two terms in its free energy: the interface energy that favors micro-domain growth and the longer ranging confinement energy that prevents unlimited spreading. In a parameter regime where two constituents are small in size compared to the third constituent and the longer ranging energy does not dominate, there is a double bubble like stable critical point o...

The growth of bubbles within the body is widely believed to be the cause of decompression sickness (DCS). Dive computer algorithms that aim to prevent DCS by mathematically modelling bubble dynamics and tissue gas kinetics are challenging to validate. This is due to lack of understanding regarding the mechanism(s) leading from bubble formation to DCS. In this work, a biomimetic in vitro tissue ...