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Shape effects on turbulent modulation by large nearly neutrally buoyant particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2012

Gabriele Bellani ,
Margaret L. Byron ,
Audric G. Collignon ,
Colin R. Meyer  and
Evan A. Variano
Gabriele Bellani*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Linné Flow Centre, KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Margaret L. Byron
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Audric G. Collignon
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Colin R. Meyer
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Evan A. Variano
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: bellani@mech.kth.se
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Abstract

We investigate dilute suspensions of Taylor-microscale-sized particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. In particular, we focus on the effect of particle shape on particle–fluid interaction. We conduct laboratory experiments using a novel experimental technique to simultaneously measure the kinematics of fluid and particle phases. This uses transparent particles having the same refractive index as water, whose motion we track via embedded optical tracers. We compare the turbulent statistics of a single-phase flow to the turbulent statistics of the fluid phase in a particle–laden suspension. Two suspensions are compared, one in which the particles are spheres and the other in which they are prolate ellipsoids with aspect ratio 2. We find that spherical particles at volume fraction ${\phi }_{v} = 0. 14\hspace{0.167em} \% $ reduce the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) by 15 % relative to the single-phase flow. At the same volume fraction (and slightly smaller total surface area), ellipsoidal particles have a much smaller effect: they reduce the TKE by 3 % relative to the single-phase flow. Spectral analysis shows the details of TKE reduction and redistribution across spatial scales: spherical particles remove energy from large scales and reinsert it at small scales, while ellipsoids remove relatively less TKE from large scales and reinsert relatively more at small scales. Shape effects are far less evident in the statistics of particle rotation, which are very similar for ellipsoids and spheres. Comparing these with fluid enstrophy statistics, we find that particle rotation is dominated by velocity gradients on scales much larger than the particle characteristic length scales.

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Turbulent Flows: Homogeneous turbulence Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow Complex Fluids: Suspensions
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 712 , 10 December 2012 , pp. 41 - 60
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©2012 Cambridge University Press

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