72th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 23, 2019 — November 26, 2019)

V0018: Breaking waves: to foam or not to foam?

Authors
  • Petr Karnakov, ETH Zurich
  • Sergey Litvinov, ETH Zurich
  • Jean M. Favre, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
  • Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2019.GFM.V0018

Breaking sea waves produce air bubbles that cluster up as foam. We suggest that foam is due to the inhibition of bubble coalescence (by surfactants and other impurities). We present a novel volume-of-fluid method that can distinguish between bubble clustering and coalescence and demonstrate this effect on simulations of breaking waves.

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