... pressure. Using the volume of fluid type framework of liquid phase fraction in the domain, bubble life cycle around the horizontal cylinder has been analyzed to understand different stages of growth, sliding, merging prior to departure. An effort has also been made to characterize the bubble population...

... from the figure that suppression factor increases with time for all the cases and the suppression is higher for the closely spaced vertical neighborhood of the cylinders. The curves are plotted till a time just before the vapor films from both the cylinder merge with each other. From the figure, it can...