In this research, hydrodynamics of the Bubble Train Flows (BTF) in circular capillaries has been investigated by Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS).The Volume of Fluid Based (VOF) interface tracking method and streamwise direction periodic boundary conditions has been applied. The results show that there exists an appropriate agreement between DNS and experimental correlation results. The re...

The diverse and often complex dynamics of digital flows in microfluidic networks is of much current interest to the microfluidic community due to the wide range of applications facilitated by such flows. In this paper, we highlight a counterintuitive phenomenon in the traffic of bubble trains. We show how all bubbles of a train can be sorted exclusively into one of the arms of a symmetric loop ...

– We study experimentally the pressure drop needed to push a bubble train in a millimetric channel, as a function of the velocity. For dry liquid foams, the influence of the amount of liquid and of the bubble size is pointed out and we predict theoretically that this influence is closely related to the power law obtained for the force/velocity relation. This model is in fair agreement with our ...

The removal of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from airstreams was studied in a biotrickling filter packed with porous lava as a carrier of Thiobacillus thioparus (DSM5368) with counter current flows of the air and liquid streams. The effect of operating parameters on biotrickling filter performance was studied. Experiments were performed at different empty bed residence times (9-60 sec), and...

The fluctuating velocity field in an air–water bubble column (i.d. 15.2 cm) at a gas fraction of 25% is investigated using backscatter LDA. Since the interpretation of LDA signals in bubbly flows is not straight forward also experiments on a single bubble train are reported. It is discussed that in the latter case when using seeding the backscatter LDA measures predominantly the liquid velocity...

Three different test cases involving free surface flows with surface tension were investigated with ANSYS CFX. Transient analyses were performed in all cases. The three cases were: (1) oscillations of a twodimensional cylindrical rod; (2) rise of liquid in a capillary; and (3) rise of an air bubble train through stagnant water. The mesh resolution, timestep, and solver settings required to obta...

Material reflectance properties play a central role in photorealistic rendering. Bidirectional texture functions (BTFs) can faithfully represent these complex properties, but their inherent high dimensionality (texture coordinates, color channels, view and illumination spatial directions) requires many coefficients to encode. Numerous algorithms based on tensor decomposition have been proposed ...

This article presents the main idea of a Biometric Authentication System (BAS). We will briefly describe BIOMET database, constructed for this purpose and composed of five modalities: face, hand-shape, fingerprint, online signature and speech. We have used two user-friendly biometric modalities of this database to construct the unimodal the signature modality was fused with clean and noisy spee...

Bubbly cavitating flow generated by the normal oscillation of a wall bounding a semi-infinite domain of fluid is computed using a continuum two-phase flow model. Bubble dynamics are computed, on the microscale, using the Rayleigh–Plesset equation. A Lagrangian finite volume scheme and implicit adaptive time marching are employed to accurately resolve bubbly shock waves and other steep gradients...

The Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF) is the recent most advanced representation of visual properties of surface materials. It specifies their altering appearance due to varying illumination and viewing conditions. Corresponding huge BTF measurements require a mathematical representation allowing simultaneously extremal compression as well as high visual fidelity. We present a novel Markovia...