Modelling Of The Bubble Population In Glass Melts

Previous studies of refining models have mostly dealt with the mathematical description of the behaviour of individual bubbles in glass melts. A further step was the modeling of the ascent and growth of groups of bubbles, including restrictions with respect to the spatial distribution of the individual bubbles. Even though no algorithm was derived in this stage which described the total bubble balance during refining, these investigations have produced important results in the field of bubble growth and ascent.