Oscillatory switching centrifugation: dynamics of a particle in a pulsating vortex

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.802MaRDI QIDQ4559221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Francesco Romanò

Publication date 3 December 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02730

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear dynamical systemsparticle/fluid flowrotating flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Viscous vortex flows (76D17) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: The dynamics of a small rigid spherical particle in an unbounded pulsating vortex is considered, keeping constant the particle Stokes number St and varying the particle-to-fluid density ratio $varrho$ and the pulsation frequency of the vortex $omega$. We show that the asymptotic dynamics of a particle of given St and $varrho$ can be controlled by varying $omega$, turning the vortex core either into an attractor or a repellor. The creation of non-trivial particle limit cycles characterizes the boundaries between centrifugal and centripetal regions in parameter space. The discovered phenomenon is termed oscillatory switching centrifugation and its implications for particle demixing processes, biological protocols, lab-on-a-chip devices and dynamical system theory are discussed in the end.

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