The final target is to study the fundamental physical processes involved in bubble dynamics and the phenomenon of cavitation. Develop a new bubble dynamics CFD model to study the evolution of a suspension of bubbles over a wide range of vesicularity, and that accounts for hydrodynamical interactions between bubbles while they grow, deform under shear flow conditions, and exchange mass by diffusion coarsening. Which commercial/open source CFD tool and turbulence model would be the most appropriate ones?
There is a boiling model available in the species transport model. Simple boundary conditions can be given for eg air in water will automatically form bubbles and can show you the dynamics of bubble formation. I hope it would be helpful.
Please let me know did I answer your question?
I strongly suggest OpenFOAM(R) because you can modify the code if you need to implement additional models.
Franco
It would be a highly educational experience if you could try to develop your own solver using MATLAB then write it in a low-level programming environment like Fortran.
But OpenFOAM should be sufficient if you want to get a bit better at programming CFD, and ANSYS/Fluent would be best if you plan on proceeding as a CFD user.
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