Clustering and increased settling speed of oblate particles at finite Reynolds number

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.370MaRDI QIDQ4582958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Fornari, Mehdi Niazi Ardekani, L. Brandt

Publication date 27 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04593

zbMATH Keywords

suspensionsparticle/fluid flowmultiphase and particle-laden flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Suspensions (76T20) Wakes and jets (76D25)

Abstract: We study the settling of rigid oblates in quiescent fluid using interface-resolved Direct Numerical Simulations. In particular, an immersed boundary method is used to account for the dispersed solid phase together with lubrication correction and collision models to account for short-range particle-particle interactions. We consider semi-dilute suspensions of oblate particles with aspect ratio AR=1/3 and solid volume fractions $phi=0.5\mathrm{\%}-10\mathrm{\%}$. The solid-to-fluid density ratio $R=1.5$ and the Galileo number (i.e. the ratio between buoyancy and viscous forces) based on the diameter of a sphere with equivalent volume $Ga=60$. With this choice of parameters, an isolated oblate falls vertically with a steady wake with its broad side perpendicular to the gravity direction. At this $Ga$, the mean settling speed of spheres is a decreasing function of the volume $phi$ and is always smaller than the terminal velocity of the isolated particle, $V_t$. On the contrary, we show here that the mean settling speed of oblate particles increases with $phi$ in dilute conditions and is $33\mathrm{\%}$ larger than $V_t$. At higher concentrations, the mean settling speed decreases becoming smaller than the terminal velocity $V_t$ between $phi=5\mathrm{\%}$ and $10\mathrm{\%}$. The increase of the mean settling speed is due to the formation of particle clusters that for $phi=0.5\mathrm{\%}-1\mathrm{\%}$ appear as columnar-like structures. From the pair-distribution function we observe that it is most probable to find particle-pairs almost vertically aligned. However, the pair-distribution function is non-negligible all around the reference particle indicating that there is a substantial amount of clustering at radial distances between 2 and $6c$ (with $c$ the polar radius of the oblate).

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