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Collision and breakup of fractal particle agglomerates in a shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2019

Farzad F. Dizaji ,
Jeffrey S. Marshall Open the ORCID record for Jeffrey S. Marshall [Opens in a new window]  and
John R. Grant
Farzad F. Dizaji
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, VT, USA
Jeffrey S. Marshall*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, VT, USA
John R. Grant
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, VT, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: jmarsha1@uvm.edu
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Abstract

A computational study was performed both of a single agglomerate and of the collision of two agglomerates in a shear flow. The agglomerates were extracted from a direct numerical simulation of a turbulent agglomeration process, and had the loosely packed fractal structure typical of agglomerate structures formed in turbulent agglomeration processes. The computation was performed using a discrete-element method for adhesive particles with four-way coupling, accounting both for forces between the fluid and the particles (and vice versa) as well as force transmission directly between particles via particle collisions. In addition to understanding and characterizing the particle dynamics, the study focused on illuminating the fluid flow field induced by the agglomerate in the presence of a background shear and the effect of collisions on this particle-induced flow. Perhaps the most interesting result of the current work was the observation that the flow field induced by a particle agglomerate rotating in a shear flow has the form of two tilted vortex rings with opposite-sign circulation. These rings are surrounded by a sea of stretched vorticity from the background shear flow. The agglomerate rotates in the shear flow, but at a slower rate than the ambient fluid elements. In the computations with two colliding agglomerates, we observed cases resulting in agglomerate merger, bouncing and fragmentation. However, the bouncing cases were all observed to also result in an exchange of particles between the two colliding agglomerates, so that they were influenced both by elastic rebound of the agglomerate structures as well as by tearing away of particulate matter between the agglomerates. Overall, the problems of agglomerate–flow interaction and of the collision of two agglomerates in a shear flow are considerably richer in physical phenomena and more complex than can be described by the common approximation that represents each agglomerate by an ‘equivalent sphere’.

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Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 862 , 10 March 2019 , pp. 592 - 623
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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