Download or read book The Rotation and Translation of Non spherical Particles in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence written by Margaret Byron and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motion of particles suspended in environmental turbulence is relevant to many scientific fields, from sediment transport to biological interactions to underwater robotics. At very small scales and simple shapes, we are able to completely mathematically describe the motion of inertial particles; however, the motion of large aspherical particles is significantly more complex, and current computational models are inadequate for large or highly-resolved domains. Therefore, we seek to experimentally investigate the coupling between freely suspended particles and ambient turbulence. A better understanding of this coupling will inform not only engineering and physics, but the interactions between small aquatic organisms and their environments. In the following pages, we explore the roles of shape and buoyancy on the motion of passive particles in turbulence, and allow these particles to serve as models for meso-scale aquatic organisms. We fabricate cylindrical and spheroidal particles and suspend them in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence that is generated via randomly-actuated jet arrays. The particles are fabricated with agarose hydrogel, which is refractive-index-matched to the surrounding fluid (water). Both the fluid and the particle are seeded with passive tracers, allowing us to perform Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) simultaneously on the particle and fluid phase. To investigate the effects of shape, particles are fabricated at varying aspect ratios; to investigate the effects of buoyancy, particles are fabricated at varying specific gravities. Each particle type is freely suspended at a volume fraction of [Phi]=0.1%, for which four-way coupling interactions are negligible. The suspended particles are imaged together with the surrounding fluid and analyzed using stereoscopic PIV, which yields three velocity components in a two-dimensional measurement plane. Using image thresholding, the results are separated into simultaneous fluid-phase and solid-phase velocity fields. Using these simultaneous measurements, we examine particles' turbulent slip velocity and compare it to particles' quiescent settling velocity, which we measure directly. We observe that the slip velocity is strongly reduced relative to the quiescent case, and explore various mechanisms of particle loitering in turbulence. We further explore the relationship between the instantaneous particle velocity and the instantaneous fluid velocity, and develop a linear parametrization. By comparing our experimental data to a simple one-dimensional flow in the context of this parametrization, we elucidate aspects of slip velocity that are unique to turbulence. We obtain the particles' angular velocity by applying the solid-body rotation equation to velocity measurements at points inside the particle. We find that the expected value of angular velocity magnitude does not vary significantly with particle aspect ratio, as long as particles are nearly neutrally buoyant. Stronger effects on rotation are found for more negatively-buoyant particles. We also investigate particles' inheritance of vorticity from turbulent velocity fields, and find that particle rotation can be predicted by applying a spatial filter to fluid-phase vorticity. The results of this study will allow us to more accurately predict the motion of aspherical particles, giving new insights into oceanic carbon cycling, industrial processes, and other important topics. This analysis will also shed light onto biological questions of navigation, reproduction, and predator-prey interaction by quantifying the turbulence-driven behavior of meso-scale aquatic organisms, allowing researchers to sift out passive vs. active effects in a behaving organism. Lastly, processes that are directly dependent on particle dynamics (e.g., sediment transport, industrial processes) will be informed by our results.

Download or read book Dynamics of Non Spherical Particles in Turbulence written by Luis Blay Esteban and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the dynamics of 2D objects moving through turbulent fluids. It examines the decay of turbulence over extended time scales, and compares the dynamics of non-spherical particles moving through still and turbulent fluids. The book begins with an introduction to the project, its aims, and its relevance for industrial applications. It then discusses the movement of planar particles in quiescent fluid, and presents the numerous methodologies used to measure it. The book also presents a detailed analysis of the falling style of irregular particles, which makes it possible to estimate particle trajectory and wake morphology based on frontal geometry. In turn, the book provides the results of an analysis of physically constrained decaying turbulence in a laboratory setting. These results suggest that large-scale cut-off in numerical simulations can result in severe bias in the computed turbulent kinetic energy for long waiting times. Combining the main text with a wealth of figures and sketches throughout, the book offers an accessible guide for all engineering students with a basic grasp of fluid mechanics, while the key findings will also be of interest to senior researchers.

Download or read book Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence written by W. D. McComb and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the idealised problem posed by homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. It is written from the perspective of a theoretical physicist, but is designed to be accessible to all researchers in turbulence, both theoretical and experimental, and from all disciplines.

Download or read book Homogeneous Turbulence Dynamics written by Pierre Sagaut and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides state-of-the-art results and theories in homogeneous turbulence, including anisotropy and compressibility effects with extension to quantum turbulence, magneto-hydodynamic turbulence and turbulence in non-newtonian fluids. Each chapter is devoted to a given type of interaction (strain, rotation, shear, etc.), and presents and compares experimental data, numerical results, analysis of the Reynolds stress budget equations and advanced multipoint spectral theories. The role of both linear and non-linear mechanisms is emphasized. The link between the statistical properties and the dynamics of coherent structures is also addressed. Despite its restriction to homogeneous turbulence, the book is of interest to all people working in turbulence, since the basic physical mechanisms which are present in all turbulent flows are explained. The reader will find a unified presentation of the results and a clear presentation of existing controversies. Special attention is given to bridge the results obtained in different research communities. Mathematical tools and advanced physical models are detailed in dedicated chapters.

Download or read book Non isotropic Aspects in Homogeneous Turbulence Subjected to Rotation written by Claude Cambon and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dynamics of Non Spherical Particles in Turbulence written by Luis Blay Esteban and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the dynamics of 2D objects moving through turbulent fluids. It examines the decay of turbulence over extended time scales, and compares the dynamics of non-spherical particles moving through still and turbulent fluids. The book begins with an introduction to the project, its aims, and its relevance for industrial applications. It then discusses the movement of planar particles in quiescent fluid, and presents the numerous methodologies used to measure it. The book also presents a detailed analysis of the falling style of irregular particles, which makes it possible to estimate particle trajectory and wake morphology based on frontal geometry. In turn, the book provides the results of an analysis of physically constrained decaying turbulence in a laboratory setting. These results suggest that large-scale cut-off in numerical simulations can result in severe bias in the computed turbulent kinetic energy for long waiting times. Combining the main text with a wealth of figures and sketches throughout, the book offers an accessible guide for all engineering students with a basic grasp of fluid mechanics, while the key findings will also be of interest to senior researchers.

Download or read book Turbulence in Fluids written by Marcel Lesieur and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious fights in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even difficult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view have been ad vocated during these last twenty years: the first one is "statistical", and tries to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the flow. This com munity, which has followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, believes in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputes the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river stands the "coherence among chaos" community, which considers turbulence from a purely deterministic po int of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of flows in various situations. To this community are also associated the experimentalists who seek to identify coherent structures in shear flows.

Download or read book The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence written by G. K. Batchelor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of Professor Batchelor's text on the theory of turbulent motion, which was first published by Cambridge Unviersity Press in 1953. It continues to be widely referred to in the professional literature of fluid mechanics, but has not been available for several years. This classic account includes an introduction to the study of homogeneous turbulence, including its mathematic representation and kinematics. Linear problems, such as the randomly-perturbed harmonic oscillator and turbulent flow through a wire gauze, are then treated. The author also presents the general dynamics of decay, universal equilibrium theory, and the decay of energy-containing eddies. There is a renewed interest in turbulent motion, which finds applications in atmospheric physics, fluid mechanics, astrophysics, and planetary science.

Download or read book Particles in Turbulent Flows written by Leonid I. Zaichik and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work available to treat the theory of turbulent flow with suspended particles, this book also includes a section on simulation methods, comparing the model results obtained with the PDF method to those obtained with other techniques, such as DNS, LES and RANS. Written by experienced scientists with background in oil and gas processing, this book is applicable to a wide range of industries -- from the petrol industry and industrial chemistry to food and water processing.

Download or read book Numerical and Theoretical Study of Homogeneous Rotating Turbulence written by Lydia Bourouiba and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modification of Homogeneous and Isotropic Turbulence by Solid Particles written by Wontae Hwang and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Homogeneous Non isotropic Turbulence Connected with a Mean Motion Having a Constant Velocity Gradient II written by J. M. Burgers and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Developments in the Theory of Turbulence written by David Clement Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Turbulence Modulation by Non spherical Particles written by Matthias Mandø and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Direct Numerical Investigations of Dilute Dispersed Flows in Homogeneous Turbulence written by Aditya U. Karnik and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivation for the present work is to investigate particle-laden turbulent flows using accurate numerical simulations. In the present work, the carrier phase is modeled using direct numerical simulations (DNS) and the particles are tracked in a Lagrangian sense. Investigations of both one-way and two-way coupled particulate flows in homogeneous isotropic turbulence have been carried out. The phenomenon of interest in one-way coupled simulations is preferential accumulation, which refers to the tendency of heavy particles in isotropic turbulence to collect in regions of high strain and low vorticity. Several measures and mechanisms of accumulation have been reported in the literature often showing conflicting scaling with particle and fluid parameters. In the present study, accumulation has been quantified using several indicators to give a unified picture. The present work addresses the scaling of preferential accumulation with Reynolds number and suggests that while the spacing between particle clusters does exhibit a dependence on Reynolds number, the structure of particle clusters as viewed by individual particles shows little dependence on Reynolds number. The effect of adding a gravitational settling force on the particles has also been explored. While the gravity force tends to homogenize the particle distribution at low Stokes numbers, at high Stokes numbers it tends to arrange the originally random distribution into streaks in the direction of gravity. The ability of the Lorentz force to limit preferential accumulation has been the focus of the next part of the study. Charges are placed on particles to produce an electric field when the particles are inhomogeneously distributed. The electric field and thereby the Lorentz force tend to homogenize the particle distribution. It is interesting to note that the particle distribution attains a stationary state determined by the total amount of charge contained in the domain. It is demonstrated that in the presence of gravity, less amount of charge is required to homogenise particle distribution. Good agreement is observed for simulations of settling charged particles with experimental work. The modification of carrier phase turbulence by particles is studied formono-sized particles. The non-uniform modification of the fluid energy spectrum by particles has been demonstrated. It is seen that there is an increase in energy at high wave numbers for microparticles (St k

Download or read book Computational Investigation Of The Dynamics Of Inertial Particles In Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flow written by Parvez Sam Sukheswalla and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particle-laden turbulent shear flows are ubiquitous in environmental and industrial flow-systems, and their analysis is thus of prime importance. In this work, we study the motion of a dilute suspension of particles in a non-stationary homogeneous turbulent shear flow (HTSF), subject to varying levels of imposed mean-shear, gravity, and inertia. We use direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the fluid velocity field (coupled with Lagrangian particle tracking), to assess the influence of flow-anisotropy and gravity on the motion of the particles. We first discuss numerical challenges encountered while performing DNS of HTSF at higher Reynolds numbers. The presence of sharp velocity gradients in the HTSF flow field is found to cause premature loss of resolution at the small scales, leading to shortened simulation-times. To counter this, the existing pseudo-spectral DNS setup is augmented with a Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) scheme, enabling numerically-stable HTSF simulations at higher Reynolds numbers. We then consider the motion of individual particles as they interact with the anisotropic topology of the turbulence. In contrast to isotropic turbulence, particles are found to collect within vortex layers, regions where strong vorticity and strain are coupled with low streamline curvature. Shear-induced anisotropy in the turbulence also leads to reduced gravitational settling speeds for intermediate-inertia particles, though stronger gravity overcomes this effect. Particle velocity variances are found to be highly anisotropic at stronger shear, while gravity now tends to diminish this effect by limiting the interaction-time between particles and turbulence. Shear and gravity acting together cause particle acceleration variances to exceed those of the underlying fluid, corroborating findings from past turbulent boundary layer experiments. Analytical expressions are derived for the mean velocities and accelerations of the particles, and are in agreement with the DNS results. Finally, we analyze the relative velocities and clustering characteristics of particle pairs, and find that stronger shear and gravity suppress path-history effects for particles with stronger inertia. Shear-induced anisotropy in pair-statistics is affected by both inertia and gravity, with stronger gravity seen to oppose the action of shear. Changes in the relative-velocity anisotropy are correlated to the trends shown by single-particle velocity variances. Particle collision rates increase with stronger shear, and are found to scale in proportion to the underlying turbulence timescales.

Download or read book Study of Turbulence Modulation by Finite size Solid Particles with the Lattice Boltzmann Method written by Cheng Peng and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbulent flows laden with finite-size solid particles are found in a variety of natural and engineering processes. However, the overall understanding of how the flow properties, such as turbulent intensity and flow drag, are modified by the addition of the particles is still limited. So far, the only rigorous approach to investigate the modulation mechanisms at the particle scale is to numerically solve the disturbance flow around each particle, known as the interface-resolved simulations (IRS). However, the application of IRS in the turbulent particle-laden flow is particularly challenging due to the requirements of resolving all the length and time scales in the turbulent flow, as well as the need to realize the no-slip boundary condition on the moving particle surfaces. ☐ In recent years, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has emerged as an efficient and accurate numerical approach for computational fluid dynamics. Compared to the conventional approaches of directly solving the Navier-Stokes equations, LBM is simple to code, easy to parallelize, and flexible in treating boundary conditions. In particular, the no-slip boundary treatment based on bounce-back scheme and mesoscopic momentum exchange in LBM take full advantage of the gas kinetic description. However, the realization of these treatments in particle-laden turbulent flow simulations is still rare. So far, the majority of the particle-laden turbulent flow simulations relies on the smoothed-boundary treatments, such as the immersed boundary methods, which tends to induce artificial dissipation. In this dissertation, LBM with a sharp-interface treatment is developed to investigate turbulence modulation by finite-size solid particles. ☐ After a thorough validation, the method is applied to the simulations of a turbulent channel flow laden with both fixed and moving particles. The interactions between the dispersed particles and carrier turbulent flows, especially the modulation induced by the particles on the turbulence intensity and its parameter dependence are examined. The addition of particles is found to result in a more homogeneous distribution of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) in the wall normal direction and a more isotropic TKE distribution among different spatial directions, comparing to the single-phase turbulent channel flow. To gain further insight, the budget equations of both the total TKE and component-wise TKE in the particle-laden turbulent flows are derived and analyzed using the simulation data. The budget analysis of the total TKE shows that the production rate of TKE from the mean flow is modified to become more uniform in the wall-normal direction by the presence of particles, which is responsible for the more homogeneous distribution of TKE. Specifically, in the buffer region where the TKE source is maximized in the single-phase flow, the TKE source due to the mean shear is reduced since both the mean flow velocity gradient and the Reynolds stress are reduced by the presence of particles. This reduction is found to be related to the particle inertia, where particles with larger inertia result in greater reduction of the TKE source. On the other hand, particles pump energy to turbulent fluctuations by doing work directly (moving particles) or inducing disturbances to the mean flow (fixed particles), converting more mechanical energy from the mean flow to the turbulent motion. The strength of this extra TKE source is related to the dynamics of the wake developed behind particles and therefore is particle-Reynolds-number dependent. The relative strength of the above two mechanisms determines whether the turbulence intensity of a turbulent channel flow is augmented or attenuated by the presence of particles. The budget analysis of component-wise TKE reveals that the more isotropic distribution of TKE among different spatial directions results from the enhanced inter-components transfer of TKE. This enhancement is found to originate from the spherical shape of the particles and particle rotation. ☐ In summary, the improved LBM simulation method based on the sharp-interface treatment provides a better alternative for particle-laden turbulent flow simulations than the commonly used smoothed-interface treatments. The physical results from this dissertation research advance our understanding of flow modulation induced by finite-size solid particles in turbulent flows, particularly in wall-bounded turbulent flows.