LBfoam: An open-source software package for the simulation of foaming using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
Abstract
This paper presents a 2D/3D Free Surface Lattice Boltzmann Method simulation package called LBfoam for the simulation of foaming processes. The model incorporates the essential physics of foaming phenomena: gas diffusion into nucleated bubbles, bubble dynamics and coalescence, surface tension, the stabilizing disjoining pressure between bubbles, and Newtonian and non-Newtonian rheological models. The software can simulate the growth and interaction of bubbles, and predict final foam structures. The implementation is based on the Palabos library (in C++), which enables large-scale parallel simulations. The software is freely available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 at: https://github.com/mehdiataei/LBfoam
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.04262,
title = {LBfoam: An open-source software package for the simulation of foaming using the Lattice Boltzmann Method},
author = {Mohammadmehdi Ataei and Vahid Shaayegan and Franco Costa and Sejin Han and Chul B. Park and Markus Bussmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04262},
year = {2020}
}
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33 pages, 17 figures