Simulation of interfacial Marangoni convection in gas-liquid mass transfer by lattice Boltzmann method

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.

Keywords

interfacial Marangoni convection / lattice Boltzmann method / gas-liquid mass transfer

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20736005).

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