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Statistical properties of particle segregation in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2011

Elena Meneguz  and
Michael W. Reeks
Elena Meneguz*
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, University of Newcastle, Stephenson Building, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Michael W. Reeks
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, University of Newcastle, Stephenson Building, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
*
†Email address for correspondence: elena.meneguz@ncl.ac.uk
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Abstract

A full Lagrangian method (FLM) is used in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of incompressible homogeneous isotropic and statistically stationary turbulent flow to measure the statistical properties of the segregation of small inertial particles advected with Stokes drag by the flow. Qualitative good agreement is observed with previous kinematic simulations (KS) (IJzermans, Meneguz & Reeks, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 653, 2010, pp. 99–136): in particular, the existence of singularities in the particle concentration field and a threshold value for the particle Stokes number above which the net compressibility of the particle concentration changes sign (from compression to dilation). A further KS analysis is carried out by examining the distribution in time of the compression of an elemental volume of particles, which shows that it is close to Gaussian as far as the third and fourth moments but non-Gaussian (within the uncertainties of the measurements) for higher-order moments when the contribution of singularities in the tails of the distribution increasingly dominates the statistics. Measurements of the rate of occurrence of singularities show that it reaches a maximum at , with the distribution of times between singularities following a Poisson process. Following the approach used by Fevrier, Simonin & Squires (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 553, 2005, pp. 1–46), we also measured the random uncorrelated motion (RUM) and mesoscopic components of the compression for and show that the non-Gaussian highly intermittent part of the distribution of the compression is associated with the RUM component and ultimately with the occurrence of singularities. This result is consistent with the formation of caustics (Wilkinson et al. Phys. Fluids, vol. 19, 2007, p. 113303), where the activation of singularities precedes the crossing of trajectories (RUM).

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Turbulent Flows: Homogeneous turbulence Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow Mixing: Turbulent mixing

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 686 , 10 November 2011 , pp. 338 - 351
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