The world of of gas bubbles and liquid drops

Günter Brenn investigates the behaviour of gas bubbles and liquid drops. His work is especially important in process engineering.

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Günter Brenn looks at the behaviour of gas bubbles and liquid drops at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. © Baustädter – TU Graz

Gas bubbles rise in a drink. A process as beautiful as it is familiar. Sometimes we notice, but we rarely think about it. But Günter Brenn from TU Graz’s Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer does. He investigates how gas bubbles behave in viscoelastic liquids, but he also deals with exactly the opposite  – in other words, how drops of liquid behave in a gaseous environment, as is the case in atomisation processes in the formation of sprays, for example.

Read more about Günter Brenn and his research on Planet research in the TU Graz News+Stories.