Turbulent dispersed multiphase flow

S Balachandar, JK Eaton - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Turbulent dispersed multiphase flows are common in many engineering and environmental
applications. The stochastic nature of both the carrier-phase turbulence and the dispersed …

Droplet growth in warm turbulent clouds

BJ Devenish, P Bartello, JL Brenguier… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this survey we consider the impact of turbulence on cloud formation from the cloud scale
to the droplet scale. We assess progress in understanding the effect of turbulence on the …

Experimental study of inertial particles clustering and settling in homogeneous turbulence

AJ Petersen, L Baker, F Coletti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We study experimentally the spatial distribution, settling and interaction of sub-Kolmogorov
inertial particles with homogeneous turbulence. Utilizing a zero-mean-flow air turbulence …

Interface-resolved direct numerical simulation of vertical particulate channel flow in the turbulent regime

M Uhlmann - Physics of Fluids, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We have conducted a direct numerical simulation study of dilute turbulent particulate flow in
a vertical plane channel by considering thousands of finite-size rigid particles with resolved …

Velocity and spatial distribution of inertial particles in a turbulent channel flow

KO Fong, O Amili, F Coletti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Velocity and spatial distribution of inertial particles in a turbulent channel flow Page 1 J. Fluid
Mech. (2019), vol. 872, pp. 367–406. c Cambridge University Press 2019 doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.355 …

Statistical models for spatial patterns of heavy particles in turbulence

K Gustavsson, B Mehlig - Advances in Physics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The dynamics of heavy particles suspended in turbulent flows is of fundamental importance
for a wide range of questions in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, oceanography, and …

Experimental and numerical investigation of inertial particle clustering in isotropic turbulence

JPLC Salazar, J De Jong, L Cao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2008 - cambridge.org
This paper presents the first detailed comparisons between experiments and direct
numerical simulations (DNS) of inertial particle clustering in nearly isotropic 'box turbulence' …

Inertial clustering of particles in high-Reynolds-number turbulence

EW Saw, RA Shaw, S Ayyalasomayajula, PY Chuang… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
We report experimental evidence of spatial clustering of dense particles in homogenous,
isotropic turbulence at high Reynolds numbers. The dissipation-scale clustering becomes …

Coherent clusters of inertial particles in homogeneous turbulence

L Baker, A Frankel, A Mani, F Coletti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Despite the widely acknowledged significance of turbulence-driven clustering, a clear
topological definition of particle cluster in turbulent dispersed multiphase flows has been …

New insights from comparing statistical theories for inertial particles in turbulence: I. Spatial distribution of particles

AD Bragg, LR Collins - New Journal of Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we contrast two theoretical models for the spatial clustering of inertial particles
in isotropic turbulence, one by Chun et al (2005 J. Fluid Mech. 536 219) and the other by …