On the analysis of bubble growth and detachment at low Capillary and Bond numbers using Volume of Fluid and Level Set methods

The growth and detachment of an isolated air bubble injected through a single orifice is considered using four different interface capturing methods, An algebraic Volume of Fluid (VOF) method developed in OpenFOAM®, a geometric VOF method implemented in ANSYS-Fluent®-v13, a Level Set (LS) method in TransAT© software, and a geometric coupled VOF with LS (CLSVOF) recently implemented in ANSYS-Fluent.13. These can be distinguished in terms of the …