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Bubbles have very important applications in many fields such as shipbuilding engineering, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, chemical engineering, medical science and so on. In this paper, the research status and the development of the bubble dynamics in terms of theory, numerical simulation and experimental technique are reviewed, which cover the underwater explosion bubble, airgun bubble, spark bubble, laser bubble, rising bubble, propeller cavitation bubble, water entry/exit cavitation bubble and bubble dynamics in other fields. Former researchers have done a lot of researches on bubble dynamics and gained fruitful achievements. However, due to the complexity of the bubble motion, many tough mechanical problems remain to be solved. Based on the research progress of bubble dynamics, this paper gives the future research direction of bubble dynamics, aiming to provide references for researches related to bubble dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the incompressible fluid flow regime, without taking consideration of surface tension effects, the viscosity effects on the behavior of an initially spherical buoyancy-driven bubble rising in an infinite and initially stationary liquid are investigated numerically by the Volume Of Fluid (VOF) method. The ratio of the gas density to the liquid density is taken as 0.001, and the gas viscosity to the liquid viscosity is 0.01, which is close to the case of an air bubble rising in water. It is found by numerical experiments that there exist two critical Reynolds numbers Re1 and Re2, which are in between 30 and 50 and in between 10 and 20, respectively. As Re>Re1 the bubble will have the transition to toroidal form, and the toroidal bubble will break down into two toroidal bubbles. In this case viscosity will damp the development of the liquid jet and delay the formation of the toroidal bubble. As Re1 the transition will not happen. As Re2 < Re1, the bubble will split from its rim into a toroidal bubble and a spherical cap-like bubble, and as Re2 the splitting will not occur and the bubble can finally reach a stationary shape. With the decrease of the Reynolds number, the stationary shape changes from spherical-cap bubble with skirt to dimpled peach-like bubble. Before the bubble reaches its stationary shape the vortex structure in the flow field varies with time. The vortex structure corresponding to bubble stationary shape varies with the Reynolds number. It is also found that there exists another critical Reynolds number Re* which is in between Re1 and Re2, and as ReRe*, it will not rise with a constant speed. The mechanism of the above phenomena has been analyzed theoretically and numerically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]