Inertial drag on a sphere settling in a stratified fluid

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.661zbMATH Open1415.76691arXiv1802.10416OpenAlexW3101723161WikidataQ129204592 ScholiaQ129204592MaRDI QIDQ4559145FDOQ4559145

Authors: Rabah Mehaddi, Fabien Candelier, B. Mehlig 

Publication date: 3 December 2018

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the drag force on a sphere settling slowly in a quiescent, linearly stratified fluid. Stratification can significantly enhance the drag experienced by the settling particle. The magnitude of this effect depends on whether fluid-density transport around the settling particle is due to diffusion, to advection by the disturbance flow caused by the particle, or due to both. It therefore matters how efficiently the fluid disturbance is convected away from the particle by fluid-inertial terms. When these terms dominate, the Oseen drag force must be recovered. We compute by perturbation theory how the Oseen drag is modified by diffusion and stratification. Our results are in good agreement with recent direct-numerical simulation studies of the problem at small Reynolds numbers and large (but not too large) Froude numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10416

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zbMATH Keywords

multiphase flowmultiphase and particle-laden flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Suspensions (76T20) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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