The terminal velocity of sedimenting particles in a flowing fluid

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/38/385501zbMATH Open1145.76051arXiv0710.3388OpenAlexW2093961486MaRDI QIDQ3528244FDOQ3528244

Authors: Marco Martins Afonso 

Publication date: 8 October 2008

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The influence of an underlying carrier flow on the terminal velocity of sedimenting particles is investigated both analytically and numerically. Our theoretical framework works for a general class of (laminar or turbulent) velocity fields and, by means of an ordinary perturbation expansion at small Stokes number, leads to closed partial differential equations (PDE) whose solutions contain all relevant information on the sedimentation process. The set of PDE's are solved by means of direct numerical simulations for a class of 2D cellular flows (static and time dependent) and the resulting phenomenology is analysed and discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3388

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation expansionsmall Stokes number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Suspensions (76T20) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

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