Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering
>> 2011,
Volume 5,
Issue 4
doi:
10.1007/s11705-011-1142-8
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Simulation of interfacial Marangoni convection in gas-liquid mass transfer by lattice Boltzmann method
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Available online: 2011-12-05
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Abstract
Interfacial Marangoni convection has significant effect on gas-liquid and/or liquid-liquid mass transfer processes. In this paper, an approach based on lattice Boltzmann method is established and two perturbation models, fixed perturbation model and self-renewable interface model, are proposed for the simulation of interfacial Marangoni convection in gas-liquid mass transfer process. The simulation results show that the concentration contours are well consistent with the typical roll cell convection patterns obtained experimentally in previous studies.