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. 2023 Aug 17;15(16):3437. doi: 10.3390/polym15163437
ADI Alternating-Direction Implicit
ALE Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian
BiCGStab Bi-Conjugate Gradient-Stable Algorithm
CSF Continuum Surface Force
CUBISTA Convergent and Universally Bounded Interpolation Scheme
for the Treatment of Advection
FTM Front-Tracking Method
GAMG Geometric-Algebraic Multi-Grid
IBM Immersed Boundary Method
IFEM Immersed-Finite-Element Method
ILU Incomplete Lower-Upper
LSM Level-Set Method
MAC Marker-And-Cell
MULES Multidimensional Universal Limiter with Explicit Solution
MVP-RIA Multiphase Viscoelastic PLIC-RDF isoAdvector
OpenFOAM Open Source Field Operation and Manipulation
PFM Phase Field Method
PIMPLE Mixture of PISO and SIMPLE
PISO Pressure Implicit with Splitting of Operator
PLIC Piecewise Linear Interface Construction
RDF Reconstructed Distance Function
SIMPLE Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations
VOF Volume-Of-Fluid
Nomenclature
Physical and mathematical quantities
u Velocity vector
ρ Density
p Pressure
g Gravity acceleration
fs Surface tension force
τ Stress tensor
τS Newtonian (Solvent) stress tensor
τP Polymeric extra-stress tensor
ηS Solvent dynamic viscosity
ηP Polymeric dynamic viscosity
α Mobility parameter
λ Relaxation factor, relaxation time
ε Extensibility parameter
σD Deviatoric part of stress tensor
σ¯ Second invariant of the deviatoric stress tensor
I Identity tensor
τ0 Yield stress
τP Gordon-Schowalter derivative
ζ Non-affine deformation parameter
τP Upper-convective time derivative of the polymeric extra-stress tensor
A Conformation tensor
γ Volume fraction
u r Relative velocity vector of two fluids
σ Surface tension coefficient
U* Calculated rise velocity
θ Natural logarithm of the conformation tensor
k Consistency index
n Shear-thinning exponent
G Elastic modulus of the material
Geometrical parameters
W  Domain width
H  Domain height
d  Initial bubble diameter
R  Initial bubble radius
Vb  Initial bubble volume
Reff  Effective bubble radii
Non-dimensional numbers
Ar  Archimedes number
Bo  Bond (Eötvös) number
Mo  Morton number
Re  Reynolds number
Wi  Weissenberg number
Bn  Bingham number
Eg  Elastogravity number
Operators
 Gradient
.  Divergence
D(.)Dt  Total time derivative
tr(.)  Trace operator
max(.,.)  Maximum operator
(.)T  Transpose operator
:  Double dot product