CHAOTIC BUBBLES

These were two disjoint research directions. The first involved understanding the bubbling from the fluid mechanics point of view and studying the dynamics associated with the system. Once the system was quantified in terms of bubbling regimes and dimensionless numbers, the next step was to integrate the system information with control equations and set-up a schemes to implement the control. The latter phase of implementing the control algorithm was the most challenging. And it is this phase, where previous experience had showed, maximum investment was to be made... Data acquisition and automation techniques were employed to generate large volumes of data for study. For the characterization studies of the bubble system, data analysis tools were built for data mining from the experimental data sets. Development of data analysis tools spurred study of statistical techniques like principal component analysis and wavelets to the bubbling data. Finally, to employ the control algorithm,..