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DNS of Drag-Force and Reactive Mass Transfer in Gravity-Driven Bubbly Flows

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Mass transfer processes in bubbly flows are relevant in both nature and industry. Multiple examples arise from the so-called unit operations of the chemical engineering, where bubble columns are used for separation processes, or as chemical and biochemical reactors.

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This work has been financially supported by MINECO (ENE2015-70672-P), and by Termo Fluids S.L., Spain. Néstor Balcázar acknowledges financial support of the Programa Torres Quevedo MINECO (PTQ-14-07186), Spain. Simulations were executed using computing time awarded by PRACE 14th-Call (project 2016153612), and RES (projects \(FI-2019-1-0039\) and \(IM-2019-2-0014\)), on the supercomputer MareNostrum IV based in Barcelona, Spain.

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  2. Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Terrassa, Spain

    O. Antepara, J. Rigola & A. Oliva

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Balcázar, N., Antepara, O., Rigola, J., Oliva, A. (2020). DNS of Drag-Force and Reactive Mass Transfer in Gravity-Driven Bubbly Flows. In: García-Villalba, M., Kuerten, H., Salvetti, M. (eds) Direct and Large Eddy Simulation XII. DLES 2019. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42822-8_16

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